Erika Hayasaki
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Erika Hayasaki teaches in the Literary Journalism Program at the University of California, Irvine. She is a journalist interested in the intersections of identity, race, psychology, inequality, science, technology, history, and the human condition. Her stories appear in The New York Times Magazine, Wired, The Atlantic, Marie Claire, MIT Technology Review, Slate, The New Republic, The Guardian, Newsweek, Time, Glamour, Foreign Policy, and others. She is a former New York-based national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, where she spent nine years covering breaking news and writing feature stories. Erika is the author of Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity and the Meaning of Family, (Algonquin Books, October 2022), and The Death Class: A True Story About Life (Simon & Schuster 2014). She is a 2021-2022 Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellow researching intersections of Black and Asian American history, and a 2018 Alicia Patterson Fellow in science and environmental reporting. Her research, writing and teaching interests include: health and science narratives, feature writing, race and culture reporting, audio and multimedia storytelling. She has won awards from the Association of Sunday Feature Editors, and the Society for Features Journalism, the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Her science writing has been featured in Longform's Best of Science writing of 2016 and 2017, and notably selected in the Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019.
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