David Mura Biography

David Mura is a poet creative nonfiction writer critic playwright and performance artist whose work in the field of diversity and multiculturalism reflects depth and meaning. A third generation Japanese American Mura authored Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei which won a 1991 Josephine Miles Book Award and was listed as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His second memoir was released in 1996 under the title Where the Body Meets Memory: An Odyssey of Race Sexuality and Identity.
Mura performs with African American writer Alexs Pate in Secret Colors a multi-media performance they co-created about their lives as men of color and Asian American-African American relations. After premiering at the Walker Art Center it has been presented at various venues throughout the country. PBS included a film adaptation of this piece titled Slowly This in its 1995 Alive TV Series. Mura's stage adaptation of Li-young Lee's memoir The Winged Seed premiered at The Pangea World Theater in 1997.
Mura's poems have appeared in such journals as The New Republic The American Poetry Review The Nation The New England Review and Crazyhorse. He has written essays on race and multiculturalism for publications including The New York Times Mother Jones The Utne Reader Racism Explained to My Daughter and The Graywood Annual V: Multi-Cultural Literacy.

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