Amy Adoyzie

I’m Amy Adoyzie. These are some of my favorite things: my Centurion mixte bicycle named Cilantro (she’s got a sister named Basil!), my stripey dress, my cowboy boots and Portland, Oregon.
I am also wildly optimistic, traipsing around and spreading my volunteering goodness. When I am not living in a country where alcohol is illegal, I enjoy Hamm’s and trying to avoid second-hand smoke in bars with my incredible friends.
Born in Chinatown, Los Angeles. Was an angst-ridden teenager in Hacienda Heights. Attended university in the San Fernando Valley (CSUN). Worked a grown-up job in Hollywood. Found my heart in Portland, Oregon. Returned to my faux-homeland and volunteer taught oral English in Huarong, Hunan, PRC. Presently a bona-fide literature and English teacher at the Asian University for Women’s Access Academy in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Always floating between stage two and five of culture shock.
Besides being born and raised in America, having lived in the Chinese countryside and presently calling Bangladesh home- I’ve also traveled to Vietnam, Tibet, Cambodia, Laos, Hong Kong, Thailand, Macau, Mexico and Italy (the latter two were when I was a kid and teenager so I don’t have any good salacious stories to tell from those countries). If the stars are aligned, I’ll be able to head to Nepal and India within the next year. And if I’m a good kid, find an actual real job after Bdesh, and save up enough money, I hope to do a possible year-long, round-the-world trip in a few years. Wish me luck.

All the while, I do the following as well:
Got thousands of images up at my Flickr account.
Contributing writer and designer for Razorcake.
International writing correspondent for National Geographic Society’s Glimpse Foundation.
In all my zine-writing, I’m most proud of the half-zine, half-screenplay project: Luluand Zineplay.
(Also in my arsenal of zine-age: The Post-It Diaries, SCRAWL, Monster of Fun and Rivals.
All-time favorite American job at Portland’s best record store, Green Noise.
The voice of the BFF, two-man band, China Loca.
Sometimes I’m the resident expert on punk rock in China according to the Utne Reader.
And I got a crush on this blind artist kid.
Even more useless facts about me here.
I’m a busy girl.