Dirty: Dirty: An illustrated anthology of ’’dirty’’ writing

Editor Debra Di Blasi is multimedia, multi-genre writer, artist, and founding publisher of Jaded Ibis Press. Her books include The Jiri Chronicles and Other Stories; Drought; Prayers of an Accidental Nature, and Skin of the Sun. She received a James Fellowship in Fiction from the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, the Thorpe Menn Book Award, Cinovation Screenwriting Award, and The Diagram Innovative Fiction Award. Debra frequently lectures on the intersection of literature and technology. Artist Mugi Takei was born in New York and moved to Japan when her parents decided to return to their homeland. She studied painting at Massachusetts College of Art, and received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 2001, she traveled to Brussels, Belgium to study French, Russian history and philosophy. Two years later she moved to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to live with her mother, and organize an independent film festival in support of young Japanese filmmakers and to develop cultural exchange. She served as teaching artist at the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience in Seattle, where her art is represented by Cullom Gallery. Writers’ biographical information is contained in the book.