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II. Janice Mirikitani ;

Early life;

Mirikitani was born in Stockton, California, to Shigemi and Ted Mirikitani, who were Japanese immigrant farmers in San Joaquin County.[1]

During World War II, she was interned along with her family at the Rohwer War Relocation Center in Arkansas.[2] Following the war, the Mirikitani family moved to Chicago.

After her parents were divorced, Janice was brought back to a chicken farm at Petaluma, California, with her mother, where they would be near the remainder of their family. During the time that followed, Janice Mirikitani became the victim of sexual molestation by her step-father up to the age of sixteen,[3] and was saved from suicide only by the love and care of her grandmother. She would later speak of the pain of her incestuous abuse through her poetry.[4]

Janice Mirikitani of Glide Memorial Church joined protesters in front of the International Hotel January, 1977.

Janice Mirikitani attended UCLA, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree. During this time, she struggled with her ethnic identity, which she would later portray through her poetry. After gaining her teaching credentials, she taught in the Contra Costa School District for a year. She worked at Glide Memorial Church in the Tenderloin district of San Francisco as an administrative assistant.[4] From her first marriage, which ended in divorce in 1966, Janice Mirikitani gave birth to her daughter, Tianne Tsukiko Miller, in 1967.[citation needed] Janice Mirikitani then entered graduate school for creative writing at San Francisco State University, but later discontinued her studies.