Dmae Roberts
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Dmae is a Peabody Award and Oregon Book Award-winning writer/radio artist who has created ground-breaking personal and multicultural documentaries on NPR and PRI. Her indie documentary projects have earned two Peabody awards: Mei Mei, a Daughter's Song, a harrowing account of her mother's childhood in Taiwan during WWII and Crossing East, the first Asian American history series on public radio. Her writing has been published by Oregon Humanities magazine, The Sun, Temple University and UNC Press. She produces a weekly arts show on KBOO and KZME and is a columnist for The Asian Reporter. She is a USA Rockefeller fellow and is working on her memoir, Lady Buddha and the Temple of Ma.

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