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Russell C. Leong
Editor, Amerasia Journal
Adjunct Professor, Asian American Studies
Adjunct Full Professor, Department of English
3227 Campbell Hall
Ph. 310.206.2892
Fax. 310.206.9844
eMail: rleong@ucla.edu |
Biographical Information
Russell C. Leong is an academic editor, a professor of English, a writer, and Chen taichiquan instructor.
Russell C. Leong is the editor of Amerasia Journal, the premier interdisciplinary scholarly journal of Asian American Studies. For the UCLA Asian American Studies Press, he also served as the editor of Asian American Sexualities: Dimensions of the Gay and Lesbian Experience, and of Moving the Image, the first book on Asian American film and video. With Don Nakanishi, he edited Asian Americans on War and Peace.
His literary work includes: The Country of Dreams and Dust (poems) winner of the PEN Josephine Miles Award in Literature, and Phoenix Eyes and other Stories , winner of the 2001 American Book Award and selected by the Los Angeles Times as one of the best books of fiction of 2000. His poems, short stories, and essays have been translated in Shanghai, Nanjing, Taipei, Hong Kong, and Rome. He was featured as one of 50 U.S. poets on the PBS series, The United States of Poetry.
Education
- M.F.A. Master of Fine Arts, UCLA Theater, Film, and Television, 1990
- National Taiwan University, Dept. of Chinese Languages and Literature, 1974-75
- Bachelor of Arts, San Francisco State College, 1972
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Selected Literary Works
 Phoenix Eyes and Other Stories by Russell C. Leong, (University of Washington Press, 2000)
"Fung Yen" Phoenix Eyes in Chinese translation: Taipei, Taiwan, (Rye field Publishers, 2001) book translated by Sebastian Hwa. Mai-Tian Publishers
The Country of Dreams and Dust by Russell C. Leong, West End Press, 1993)
My Chinatown A to Z, by Russell C. Leong, (San Francisco, California, 1966) a children's book
Fiction, Memoir and Poetry
"No Bruce Lee," story reprinted in Charlie Chan is Dead, No. 2, edited by Jessica Hagedorn, (Penguin Books, 2004)
Hand Over, in Yin/Yang, Literary Journal, University of Hong Kong, 2003
"Looking after Hands," in Speakeasy, published by the Loft Literary Center March/April 2003
"Enter the Year of the Dragon" in Another City: Writers of Los Angeles, edited by David Ulin (City Lights Books, 2001)
"Haishan" (chinese translation of short story) in Contemporary Foreign Literature 2001.3 Dangdai Waiguo Wenxue) Nanjing University, China.
"The Story of Haishan," in Emergences: Journal for the Study of Media and Composite Cultures Volume 9, number 2, November 1999
"Memories of Stone Places," in Emergences: Journal for the Study of Media and Composite Cultures, Volume 9, Number 1, May 1999
"Fish don't wear no hats" short story in Remapping the Occident, edited by Bryan Malessa (UC Berkeley, Spring 1995).
"A Yin and Her Man," short story in On A Bed of Rice: Asian American Erotic Anthology , edited by Geraldine Kudaka, (New York: Anchor Books, 1995).
"Litany," in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review (New York, Fall 1994)
"Geography One," in Charlie Chan is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction, edited by Jessica Hagedorn (Viking-Penguin Books, 1993), an earlier version in ZYZZYVA (1992) and collected in Strange Attraction: The Best of ZYZZYVA (Nevada: University of Nevada Press, 1995).
"The Painted Branch," short story in New England Review, (volume 15:3, fifteenth anniversary Issue, 1993.)
"Aloes" and "Clay" reprinted in Blood Whispers: L.A. Writers on AIDS (Silverton Books and the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center, 1994).
"Granite," reprinted in Los Angeles Times Book Review section, (February 13, 1994.)
"Sail" and other poems, Artspiral (Asian American Arts Center, New York, 1993).
"Unfolding Flowers, Matchless Flames," in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review (Spring 1993).
"In the Country of Dreams and Dust," earlier version in Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique 1:1 , 1993 (Duke University Press). Also in Asian American Literature Mosaic, edited by Shawn Wong for Harper-Collins Educational Books, 1995).
"Beware of the M Word," in High Performance Magazine, Los Angeles Uprising Issue edited by Wanda Coleman, 1992 and reprinted in California Sociology: special issue on multiculturalism, 1993.
"Aerogrammes," The Seattle Review: Asian American Literature Issue, reprinted in
The Open Boat, An Asian American Poetry Anthology, edited by Garrett Hongo (Doubleday/Anchor, 1993) and reprinted in Invocation, L.A. (West End Press, 1990) and Image Magazine, San Francisco Examiner, November 14, 1993. Translated by Ho Wenjing in Chung Wai Literary Monthly, Vol. 29/ No. 11, April 2001
Video Documentaries on Writers
NVM Gonzalez: A Story Yet to be Told, 1998, 30 minute video documentary on national writer of the Philippines, premier, David Henry Hwang Theatre, L.A. December 9, 1998
Why is Preparing Fish a Political Act? Poetry of Janice Mirikitani, 1990, director and editor. Selected for the National Asian Pacific American asiancine Vision Video Festival, New York City aired on Manhattan Cable, 1991.
Morning Begins Here, video documentary on San Francisco Chinatown, screened at the 1985 RIFE International Film and Video Festival, Czechoslovakia. Aired on Channel 18 on Chinese television, Los Angeles, 1986.
Reviews of Literary Work
"Chinese Characters in the Diaspora: Russell Charles Leong," by Stella Dong, in South China Morning Post, May 30, 2004 (Hong Kong)
"Writing the Chinese and Southeast Asian Diasporas in Russell Leong's Phoenix Eyes," by Walter S.H. Lim, in Asian Diaspora: Cultures, Identities, Representations, edited by Robbie Goh and Shawn Wong (Hong Kong University Press, 2004)
"Art, Spirituality, and the Ethic of Care: Alternative Masculinities in Chinese American Literature," by King-kok Cheung, in Masculinity Studies, Feminist Theory, New Directions, edtied by Judith Kegan Gardiner (Columbia University Press, New York, 2002)
"Acts of Reclamation" by Sue Russell in the Kenyon Review ( winter 1995, volume XVII, no. 1)
"L.A. and Other Fictions," by Nina J. Easton, Los Angeles Times Magazine (September 5, 1993.)
"Walls and Bridges," by Steven A. Chin, San Francisco Examiner Image Magazine (November 14, 1993). Author profile and poem.
"Fresh Harvest: Multicultural Poetry from a Nation of Immigrants," by Sesshu Foster, in Northwest Review, 1994.
Biography and writers statement in Contemporary Authors.
Author Interview in Words Matter: Conversations with 20 Asian American Writers, edited by King-kok Cheung (University of Hawaii Press, Spring 2000).
Review of Phoenix Eyes in Los Angeles Times, by Jonathan Kirsch in West Words, Los Angeles Times, August 23, 2000.
Interview and review in International Examiner, Sept. 5, 2000, vo. 27:16.
Interview and article in Pots Magazine, Taipei, Taiwan, December 7. 2001. |
