Akiko Busch
Akiko Busch writes about design, culture, and the natural world for a variety of publications. She is the author of Geography of Home: Writings on Where We Live and The Uncommon Life of Common Objects: Essays on Design and the Everyday. Her most recent book of essays, Nine Ways to Cross a River, a collection of essays about swimming across American rivers, was published in 2007 by Bloomsbury/USA. In Fall, 2010, Sterling Books will publish her new essay, Patience: Taking Time in an Age of Acceleration. She was a contributing editor at Metropolis magazine for 20 years, and her work has appeared in numerous national magazines, newspapers and exhibition catalogues. She has taught at the University of Hartford and Bennington College and has appeared on public radio in the U.S. and Canada. Currently she a regular contributor to “American Craft”.
