Saeko Usukawa (1949 - 2009)was born in an internment camp in Lemon Creek, B.C. She worked as an editor in Toronto until she moved to Vancouver in the 1970s. She is the co-author of two pieces published in Geist: "Gulf Island Sojourn" (No. 8) and "Okay, So If the Seventies, Then What? An Evening Wiothout Television" (No. 14).