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Velina Hasu Houston was born on 5 May, 1957 in At sea, en route between America and Japan, is an American poet. Discover Velina Hasu Houston's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?

Popular As Velina Hasu Houston
Occupation Poet essayist screenwriter playwright author editor
Age 66 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 5 May 1957
Birthday 5 May
Birthplace At sea, en route between America and Japan
Nationality United States

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1946

In 1946, the parents of Velina met each other in Kobe, initiating a nine-year courtship despite disapproval from Velina's maternal grandfather.

The grandfather, devastated by his country's defeat in World War II and the loss of his family's land due to the land reform policies backed by the US occupation, tragically took his own life.

Following their marriage, the couple eventually cut off contact with both sides of their respective families.

Later on, they adopted their only son, Joji Kawada George Adam Houston, who was an Amerasian and had been orphaned at the age of eight during the U.S. occupation of Tokyo.

1949

In 1949, Velina's father made his way back to the United States.

1951

In order to reunite with Setsuko, he willingly enlisted for active duty in the Korean War and returned to Asia in 1951.

The lengthy courtship of Lemo and Setsuko, lasting for nine years, was a result of Lemo's respect for Setsuko's desire to remain in Japan and care for her sick mother.

1954

The couple exchanged vows in 1954 and subsequently migrated to the United States in 1957, accompanied by their children, Joji and Velina's sister, Hilda Rika Hatsuyo.

While en route, Velina was born and granted citizenship during her father's initial U.S. military assignment at Fort Riley.

Their new life in America exposed them to discrimination, both from fellow Americans, including Japanese Americans, and from sources within and outside their own family.

Nonetheless, these experiences served to fortify them and lay the foundation for the budding writer within Velina.

The family settled in Junction City, Kansas, a small town adjacent to the military base, living a culturally Japanese lifestyle at the insistence of Velina's mother, Setsuko.

1957

Velina Hasu Houston (born Velina Avisa Hasu Houston on May 5, 1957) is an American playwright, essayist, poet, author, editor and screenwriter who has had many works produced, presented and published.

Her work draws from her experience of being multiracial as well as from the immigrant experiences of her family and those she encountered growing up in Junction City, Kansas.

Houston is best known for her play Tea, which portrays the lives of Japanese war brides who move to the United States with their American serviceman husbands.

Houston, the youngest of three, was born in international waters on a military ship en route to a U.S. base in Japan.

Her Japanese mother, Setsuko Takechi, was originally from Matsuyama, Ehime, a provincial town on Shikoku Island.

Her father, Lemo Houston, was an African Native American/Blackfoot-Pikuni Native American Indian originally from Linden, Alabama.

Houston's ancestral lineages include historical ethnic ties to India, Cuba, Armenia, Greece and China, as well as family ties to Hawaii, England, Germany, Brazil, Argentina and Scotland.

1969

In 1969, as a result of combat-related stress and alcoholism, Velina's father died.

Setsuko continued raising her family in Junction City, a community consisting of mostly Japanese and European immigrant women who married Americans after World War II.

Houston attended graduate school at the University of California at Los Angeles and at the University of Southern California.

She holds a PhD from USC's School of Cinematic Arts, and an MFA from the University of California at Los Angeles' School of Theater, Film, and Television.

She also attended Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, majoring in journalism and theater with a minor in philosophy.

Houston has been recognized as a Japan Foundation Fellow, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow (twice), a Sidney F. Brody Fellow, a James Zumberge Fellow (thrice), a California Arts Council fellow, and a Los Angeles Endowment for the Arts Fellow.

2007

She is a Pinter Review Prize for Drama Silver Medalist for Calling Aphrodite, which was also a finalist for the American Theatre Critics Association Steinberg New Play Award for its 2007 world premiere.

Houston continues to write plays and also works in other genres of writing.

Houston is the Professor, Associate Dean of Faculty, Resident Playwright, and Founder/Director of the undergraduate Playwriting Program and Master of Fine Arts in Dramatic Writing at the University of Southern California.

For several years, she taught master classes in screenwriting at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Theater, Film, and Television.

2017

Her most recent production was the premiere of her adaptation of Little Women, produced by the Playwrights' Arena in Los Angeles on October and November 2017.

Houston resides in Los Angeles, with homes in Hawaii and Kyoto.

She is married to Peter H. Jones of Manchester, England, with whom she has two children and two stepsons: Kiyoshi S. S. Houston, K. Leilani Houston, Evan W. Jones and Jason K. Jones.

Raised as a Buddhist and Shintoist, Houston attends an Episcopal parish but practices a polytheistic faith.