ART Spending time in the archives and, like most people I know, receiving numerous mutual aid requests, I’m struck by how both senninbari and fundraisers remind us of human-made tragedies and policy failures, as well as the commitment individuals and communities can make to each other, despite.
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Notes on My Grandpa’s Senninbari and the In-Between of Art and Politics
Sarah Matsui
Sarah Matsui is the winner of the Sewanee Review Nonfiction Contest, the Fractured Lit Contest, and the Bread Loaf Katharine Bakeless Nason Award. Her work has appeared in the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, NPR Code Switch, Jacobin Magazine, The Southern Review, The Seventh Wave, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Pleiades. She is the recipient of a 2024-2025 Friends of the San Francisco Public Library Residency, the 2025 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Christina Chiu AAPI Writers Fellowship, and a 2025 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, where she will be working on her debut essay collection.
