Susan Kiyo Ito is the author of I Would Meet You Anywhere, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, as well as a Best Memoir mention from Library Journal. She co-edited the literary anthology A Ghost At Heart’s Edge: Stories & Poems of Adoption. Her work has appeared in Agni, Catapult, The Rumpus, The Writer, Growing Up Asian American, Choice, Hip Mama, Literary Mama, Catapult, Hyphen,The Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. 

She is a MacDowell colony Fellow, and has also been awarded residencies at The Mesa Refuge, Hedgebrook and the Blue Mountain Center. She has performed her solo show, The Ice Cream Gene, around the US. Her theatrical adaption of Untold, stories of reproductive stigma, was produced at Brava Theater. She is a member of the Writers’ Grotto, and teaches at Mills College/Northeastern University. She was one of the founders of Rooted and Written, a no-fee writing workshop for writers of color. She lives in Northern California.