Susan Ito is the author of The Mouse Room. She co-edited the literary anthology A Ghost At Heart’s Edge: Stories & Poems of Adoption (North Atlantic Books). She is a creative nonfiction editor at Literary Mama, and her work has appeared in Growing Up Asian American, Choice, Hip Mama, The Bellevue Literary Review, Making More Waves and elsewhere. She has performed her solo show, The Ice Cream Gene, around the US. She is a member of the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, where she works and teaches. She is on the faculty of the MFA Programs at Mills College and Bay Path University, and is working on a theatrical adaption of Untold, stories of reproductive stigma. Her website is susanito.com, and you can find her on Twitter at @TheSusanIto.