1. Kevin is a Northern California resident of six years. He recently caught his first Trinity River salmon -- 22 lbs -- and recommends the experience to anyone.

2. Kevin is currently a student in the graduate writing program at CSU Hayward. He has published fiction about Asian Americans -- his story "title" won the 2002 Robert V. Williams Prize for fiction at CSUH -- and will be working on the The Great Sansei Novel for the next twenty-two years.