Education republic of uzbekistan of karakalpak state university named after berdakh faculty of foreign

She is a distant cousin of artist Tsutomu "Jimmy" Mirikitani (daughter of his cousin, Ted), who is the subject of an award-winning documentary film, The Cats of Mirikitani (2006).

Janice Mirikitani's published books are: Awake in the River (1978); Shedding Silence (1987); We, the Dangerous (1995); and Love Works (2002). In 2014, she released a fifth collection of poems entitled Out of the Dust: New and Selected Poems through the University of Hawai'i Press. Thematically, it examines the layers of tragedy surrounding the bombing of the World Trade Center, the U.S. war in Afghanistan, and the many levels of reactive racial profiling of Muslims and Arab Americans and draws connections between the experiences of Japanese Americans during World War II.