Maya, Malcolm X and Me. By Leza Lowitz

Happy to guest blog on the Manifest-Station website about my childhood at Malcolm X Elementary School in Berkeley, California and a school visit by Maya Angelou in 1970 that changed my life. themanifeststation.net

JET BLACK AND THE NINJA WIND in The Diplomat

Can Literature tell the truth where Politics won’t? I am honored to be quoted alongside Shogo in this thought-provoking article in The Diplomat on literature as a potential soft bridge between Asian nations.

JET BLACK AND THE NINJA WIND

Jet Black and the Ninja Wind by Leza Lowitz & Shogo Oketani (Book One in a Trilogy) Jet Black is the last living female ninja in the world. There’s only one problem–she doesn’t know it. Everyone else does, and they all want to capture her and uncover her secret–a secret she doesn’t even know she has. Will the discovery of …

MY POSTWAR LIFE

Read the reviews: Japan Times Asian Review of Books To purchase from Amazon, please click here.

TOMO: FRIENDSHIP THROUGH FICTION

On March 11th, 2012, the anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, Stone Bridge Press will be releasing Tomo: Friendship Through Fiction, an anthology whose proceeds go to help teenagers affected by the tsunami. All Tomo proceeds go to teenagers affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake. An excerpt from “Jet Black and the Ninja Wind” appears in this anthology. Book description …

THE BEST BUDDHIST WRITING 2011

To purchase from Amazon, please click here. The Best Buddhist Writing 2011 features Leza’s story on adopting her Japanese son. The anthology is a thought-provoking mix of the most notable and insightful Buddhism-inspired writing published in the last year. The Best Buddhist Writing 2011 (Shambhala Publishers) includes:   • His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s manifesto on tolerance • Dzogchen Ponlop on …