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Keiko Lane (she/her) is an Okinawan American poet, essayist, memoirist, and psychotherapist writing about the intersections of queer culture, oppression resistance, liberation psychology, racial and gender justice, HIV criminalization, and reproductive justice.
Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Room: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action, Queering Sexual Violence, The Feminist Porn Book, The Remedy: Queer and Trans Voices on Health and Healthcare, Between Certain Death and a Possible Future, TheRumpus.net, TheFeministWire.com, and TheBody.com. Her poetry has been awarded a Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Prize, and her essays have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Los Angeles with her family. Blood Loss: A Love Story of AIDS, Activism, and Art is her first book.