Eve Kushner is a self-employed full-time writer since 1999. She has authored two nonfiction books and hundreds of articles on topics including Japanese kanji script, culture, architecture, and personal experiences. In 2005, she founded Joy o' Kanji to write and sell essays about the 2,136 kanji characters needed for literacy, employing 12 part-time researchers and designers in 4 countries. Kushner holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and has studied multiple languages.

1. EVE KUSHNER, WRITER
1730 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley, California 94709
(510) 334-8024 evekushner@yahoo.com
www.joyokanji.com www.evekushner.com
OVERVIEW
Self-employed full-time writer since 1999
Author of 2 nonfiction books and hundreds of articles in dozens of markets
Areas of expertise include kanji (a Japanese script) and Japanese culture, architecture, visionary and eco-friendly
thinking, life path, reproductive issues, books, films, writing technique, and personal experiences
Quoted at length about reproductive issues in Newsweek and on TVO's "Saturday Night at the Movies"
Genres include study essays and blogs about language, profiles, nonfiction books, and personal essays
KANJIWRITING, 2005–PRESENT
Founded Joy o' Kanji in 2010, writing and selling essays about each of the 2,136 characters needed for literacy
Currently employ 12 part-time people (11 researchers and 1 graphic designer) based in 4 countries
Published Crazy for Kanji: A Student's Guide to the Wonderful World of Japanese Characters (Stone Bridge, 2009)
Wrote "Kanji Curiosity," a blog about kanji, for JapanesePod101.comfrom2007 to 2010
Spoke multiple times on PRI Public Radio about kanji and other Japan-related issues
Held 12 kanji events at the Asian Art Museum, Oakland Museum, bookstores, and many festivals
FREELANCEWRITING, 1999–2010
Published the nonfiction book Experiencing Abortion: A Weaving of Women's Words (Haworth Press, 1997)
Published many feature articles in the San Francisco Chronicle and East Bay Monthly
Wrote a monthly column for Builder/Architect, 2006–08
Published multiple times in East Bay Express, Japanophile, AmeriDreams, Moxie, CitySearch, and DesignBuildNetwork
Placed pieces in The Writer, Bitch, Rain Taxi, AsianWeek, Writers' Journal, Persimmon, The Jewish Magazine, Bright
Lights Film Journal, NACLA, Writer OnLine, Hyde Park Review of Books, ByLine, and The National
Wrote marketing copy for an architecture firm(helping to win an award) and a real estate agent
EDITING WORK, 1991–1999
Copyedited freelance for many book publishers, including Jossey-Bass and the Univ. of California Press 1991–99
Proofread books in a busy typesetting department, Dharma Enterprises, Oakland, CA 1991–92
Worked at the Dartmouth Bookstore, Hanover, NH 1990–91
EDUCATION
Denver Publishing Institute: four-week intensive course in publishing 1990
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 1986–90
B.A. with honors in English, Summa CumLaude, Phi Beta Kappa, All-American Scholar
Took exchange terms at University College London; University of California, San Diego
Won two playwriting prizes
Published a paper in a prestigious academic journal
Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, CT 1982–86
Rassweiler Award for love of learning, 1986
John Dos Passos Award for creative writing, 1985–86
Awards in French, math, and history, 1984–86
MISCELLANEA
Cofounded Quilts4Japan, a volunteer effort to help the survivors of the 2011 disasters in Japan
Founded and ran 2 festivals in 2009
Have studied Spanish, Japanese, and French in depth, and have dabbled in Latin, Hebrew, German, and Italian
Delivered the kickoff lecture at Eco Wave 2004 (Oakland, CA), a conference on eco-architecture

2. Spoke at the San Francisco Institute of Architecture in the Thursday night speaker series
Hobbies include tennis, yoga, walking with dogs, travel, movies, and reading