![]() ![]() ![]() (To read a published essay about this experience, please click here.) He has spent more than 10 of the last 20 years in Vietnam, making his home in such places as Saigon, Hanoi, Mui Ne, and Bien Hoa.ĭavid has also lived in Japan five different times, and has called Sapporo, Akita, Tokyo, Fukui, and Kanazawa home. ![]() His earliest experience in Vietnam was as a volunteer teacher in 1994, when he became the first American since the end of the Vietnam War to live and work in Dong Nai province. He has been shuttling between the US, Vietnam, and Japan for all of his adult life.ĭavid has lived and worked in Vietnam seven different times. Nine years and several trips to Asia later he earned his MFA from the University of Arizona where he studied fiction, nonfiction, and playwriting. During his junior year he made his first trip to Asia – a five-month study abroad program in Sapporo, Japan. He attended Earlham College and majored in Japanese Studies. David Joiner was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. ![]()
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