Itchy Brown Girl Seeks Employment is an ironic Curriculum Vitae where life and work experiences one wouldn’t want a potential employer to know are highlighted using vulnerability, wit, observation, and candor. Ella deCastro Baron a first generation Asian American woman challenged by her parents’ faith, inherited sickness, and questionable life choices shares of beginning and ending relationships, restlessness, miracles, prejudice, entitlement, and community. She leaves it up to the reader to decide, after assessing her background, education, professional experience, fieldwork, high (and low) achievements, if she is someone worth investing in.
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Book Details
- Category: Fiction.
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 219
- Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5
- ISBN: 9780981602059
- Year Published: 2003
- Language: English
- Publisher: San Diego City Works Press
About the Author
Ella deCastro Baron
Ella deCastro Baron (she/siya/we) is a second generation Filipina American born and raised in Coastal Miwok territory (Vallejo, CA). She is a VONA alum; holds an MFA in Creative Writing; teaches Composition and Creative Writing at San Diego City College, S.D. Mesa College, U Mass Global; and co-facilitates “Where We Come From: Writing Your Ethnoautobiography” and “To Exist Is to Flare: Loving Our Chronically Ill Minds and Bodies” through Urban Haiku. She is also a mycelial 2024 Mushroom School cohort leader with Corporeal Writing. Ella’s first book of creative nonfiction is Itchy, Brown Girl Seeks Employment and she’s published in Nonwhite and Woman, (Her)oics: Women’s Lived Experiences During the Coronavirus Epidemic, Anomaly magazine, Rumpus, Sunshine/Noir: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana, Sunshine/Noir II: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana, and Sunshine/Noir III: Writing from San Diego and Tijuana (all from City Works Press), and more. As a woman of color who lives with chronic dis-ease, Ella honors sensations, images, story, dance, and decolonial truth-telling. She produces workshops and kapwa (deep interconnection) gatherings that stir love and justice via writing, art, joy, grief-tending, movement, food (yes!) and community. She lives and loves on Kumeyaay territory (San Diego, CA) with her husband and interracial family. Her favorite pronoun, more than ever, is We.
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