Interviews/Blogs:
Ninja Meets Navajo Code Talker
Book Whales Spotlight on Jet Black and The Ninja Wind
Bookish Review for Jet Black and The Ninja Wind
Bookish Interview Jet Black and The Ninja Wind
Hello Yoga, Japan: Part I & Part II
Bravo Music Japan (in Japanese)
The Japan Times, September 16, 2006.pdf
Interview with Leza in Ai-Ai Entertainment Magazine, Japan.pdf
Leza interviews poet Kim Addonizio in Poetry Flash
Wingspan, The Art of Surrender.pdf
Leza writes about the March 2011 Japan earthquake and nuclear aftermath in The Huffington Post
January, 2013 Interview in Worldette
All Things Healing: Leza’s newest blog post on Six Steps to Awakening A Yogic Heart
Lowitz’s work has also appeared in the following selected publications:
Fiction
National Public Radio’s The Sound of Writing, The Broken Bridge (Stone Bridge Press), Prairie Schooner: Japan Issue, An Inn Near Kyoto (New Rivers Press), They Only Laughed Later: Women on The Move (Europublic Press), EXPAT: Women’s True Tales of Life Abroad (Seal Press), Yominono, Japanzine, muse apprentice guild, Jungle Crows: A Tokyo Expatriate Anthology (Printed Matter Press), Chicago Quarterly Review.
Essays
Yoga Journal, Yoga Voices, Yoga Journal Japan, Yogini, Shambhala Sun, To Japan With Love (Things Asian Press), Body & Soul Escapes (Footprint Travel Press), The Poem Behind the Poem: On Translating Asian Poetry (Copper Canyon Press), Poetry Nippon, Mänoa, Call Me Okaasan: Adventures in Multicultural Mothering (Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing), Write for Tohoku, The Best Buddhist Writing 2011 (Shambhala Publications).
Translations from the Japanese
Harper’s, ZYZZYVA, Ms., WINDS, Mänoa, Yellow Silk, Two Lines: Ghosts, Another Chicago Magazine, Five Fingers Review, Tokyo Journal, Tanka Journal, Japan Poetry Review, Perihilion, Web Del Sol, Poetry and Thought, Poetry Kanto, Yominono, Kyoto Journal. It’s A Woman’s World: A Century of Women’s Voices in Poetry (Dutton), A ZigZag Joy (Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Japanese Poetry), Masters of Modern Japanese Poetry CD (Morris-Lee), A Chorus for Peace (University of Iowa Press), Thirteen Ways of Looking for a Poem (Addison-Wesley Longman,), The Poetry of Men’s Lives: An International Anthology (University of Georgia Press), Haiku: The Poetry of Zen (Hyperion), The Poem Behind the Poem: On Translating Asian Poetry (Copper Canyon Press),The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: From 1945 to the Present (Columbia University Press), Inside and Other Short Fiction: Japanese Women by Japanese Women (Kodansha International), Language for A New Century (W.W. Norton), Ayukawa Nobuo’s America & Other Poems.
Poetry
Kyoto Journal, Prairie Schooner, Awaiting a Lover (Viking Penguin), GRRR: A Collection of Poems About Bears (Arctos Press), 100 Poets Against the War (Salt Press UK), If Women Ruled the World (Inner Ocean), Comfort Prayers (Andrews McMeel), Erotic Haiku (Yohan), Cloud View Poets (Arctos Press), Jungle Crows: A Tokyo Expatriate Anthology (Printed Matter Press), Poems of Awakening (Outskirts Press), The Poetry of Yoga, Visiting Dr. Williams (University of Iowa Press).
Book reviews
KQED Radio’s “Pacific Time,” The Far Eastern Economic Review, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Oakland Tribune, The Santa Rosa Press Democrat, The Asahi Evening News, The Mainichi Daily News, The New England Journal of Medicine, Mänoa, The San Francisco Review of Books, The All Asia Review of Books, Kyoto Journal, The Bloomsbury Review, The Pacific Sun, Poetry Flash, WINDS.
Art criticism
Art in America, Sculpture, The Asahi Evening News, the Mainichi Daily News, The Japan Times.
Lectures/readings
Japan Society of Northern California, the Tokyo British Club, the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of Japan, the Association of Women in Finance, the San Francisco Zen Center, Noh Space/Theatre Artaud, Mystery Writers of America Conference (featured literary agent). She has appeared on panels at the Associated Writing Program’s (AWP) Annual Writer’s Conference in Portland, Oregon and at the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) conference in San Francisco. She was a Keynote speaker at the Haiku Society of America’s 25th Anniversary Retreat in Danville, CA. She has given readings at Black Oak Books, Cody’s, Book Passage, Copperfields, Keppler’s, Powell’s Books, Barnes & Noble Manhattan, Pt. Reyes Books, Om Yoga Center New York, and many others.
2015 Sakura Medal Nominee
2014 Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) Award for Young Adult Literature
2014 SCBWI Crystal Kite Award Shortlist
Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Award for the Translation of Japanese Literature, Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, Columbia University, 2003 (with Shogo Oketani).
PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Best Poetry Book of the Year, 2002.
Foreword Magazine Independent Book of the Year Award, Finalist in Poetry, 2001.
Pushcart Prize Nomination in Poetry, Arctos Press, Sausalito, CA., 2002.
Copperfields Books Award in Fiction, 2001.
Recipient of Money for Women/Barbara Deming Grant for Fiction, 2000.
First Prize, Japanophile Magazine Fiction Contest, 1999.
California Arts Council Individual Artist’s Fellowship in Poetry, 1997.
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Fellowship in Poetry Translation, 1997-98.
Austrian Ministry of Arts Grant for film script of "Milk," 1995.
Benjamin Franklin Award for Editorial Excellence, June 1995.
A Long Rainy Season short-listed for Noma Sho Literary Award, Japan, 1995.
Squaw Valley Community Of Writers Conference Fiction Scholarship, 1999.
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Translation Fellowship, 1994.
First Prize, Tokyo Journal Fiction Translation Award, August 1994.
First Prize, Printed Matter Original Poetry Award, Tokyo, 1993.
Fiction Broadcast on National Public Radio’s “The Sound of Writing,” 1990.
Semi-Finalist, Discovery/The Nation Award for Poetry, 1990.
PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, 1989.
Napa Valley Writer’s Conference Scholarship in Fiction, 1989.
Semi-Finalist, Mademoiselle Magazine Fiction Award, 1989.
First Prize, Poetry Center/Browning Society Dramatic Monologue Award, 1987.
First Prize, Poetry Center/Browning Society Dramatic Monologue Award, 1986.
U.C. Berkeley Joan Lee Yang Memorial Poetry Prize, 1984.
