Christine Kitano – “Where are you going, where have you been?” (July 2023)

We often categorize writers by historical period, racial identity, or other cultural markers; we impose causal timelines, and out of this we build traditions and canons. But no writer is ever purely of a single lineage or tradition. Kitano explores how it is the work of an individual writer to forge a lineage of their own, one that is in constant conversation, revision, and expansion. Ultimately it is this intentional practice of reading that allows us to articulate not just how we emerge from the past, but how the work of the present is to revise our understanding of where we have come from as well as to imagine where we are going.