The Writer Profile Project initially interviewed Sequoia Nagamatsu on July 21, 2008. Please read his interview here. What has he been up to in the last year and several months? Here’s what Sequoia had to say:

Well, a lot has happened since we last corresponded. I gave away my guinea pigs (traded them in for a small dog that looks like a poodle), moved back to the U.S. from Japan, and I’m currently applying to fourteen MFA programs (Don’t ask how much those apps are costing).

Writing wise, I had a story accepted by the Bellevue Literary Review which is in the current fall 09 issue. The editors over there are awesome. As you probably know, One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories was launched last April at the Oxford Literary Festival. I did a live interview in the virtual world of Second Life shortly thereafter with my “way cooler than me” avatar. The project founder, Ovo Adagha, sat in the audience in his virtual coat and tie. It was pretty cool in that people in the audience were tuning in from several different countries, and I could converse with them while still being in my pajamas. The book has been doing well, has gotten some good reviews and is even being used in a couple of high schools.

I’m steadily working on stories for a collection that blends Japanese folklore with modern issues, as well as a novel centering on the interconnected lives of four people affected by the ‘95 Sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo Metro. At the moment, I’m pretty busy taking notes for a critical essay (in part for my own amusement but also for an application) focusing on the use of language in dystopian literature with special regard to Ferenc Karinthy’s Metropole.

Other than that, I’m watching a bunch of Vampire television series like everyone else.

The Short Review’s One World Anthology Review.

Sequoia Nagamatsu on Treet TV talking about One World.