Longform Podcast Episode #508, Erika Hayasaki, interview by Evan Ratliff.

The Nieman Storyboard Podcast: Erika Hayasaki on trauma-informed reporting and celebrating the ‘reported essay.’ "How do you really come to understand the aftermath of a tragedy and the people who are most affected by it?" Interview by Mark Armstrong, editor of Nieman Storyboard.

Nieman Storyboard Story Annotation: How a freelancer’s story instincts landed a piece in The New York TimesErika Hayasaki found characters, scenes and themes in the aftermath of the Maui wildfires that she couldn't set aside despite multiple rejections, interview by Kim Cross.

Nieman Storyboard Interview for The Pitch: Erika Hayasaki on how to leave the newsroom and kill it as a freelancer: Journalist, professor, author, mother – How does she do it all? With passion, persistence, another paycheck and perspective: "I'm not just one story,” interview by Katia Savchuk.

Longform Profiles Interview #23: Erika Hayasaki shares how she balanced capturing the immediate devastation and the long road of recovery in her piece about Edralina Diezon’s resilience after the Maui wildfires, interview by Hao Nguyen.

My First Byline: Erika Hayasaki Freelance journalist and professor, interview by Ryan Teague Beckwith.

Literary Mama: A Conversation with Erika Hayasaki, interview by Victoria Clayton.

NPR’s Here & Now interview: “Somewhere Sisters Explores Identity and the Nature-Nurture Debate,” interview by Deepa Fernandes.

New York Magazine’s The Cut: “Twin Girls Were Separated at Birth—a New Book Explores What Came Next,” interview by Hope Reese.

WNYC’s The Takeaway, holiday book club pick “Somewhere Sisters,” interview by Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry.

From Hiroshima to international adoption, journalist and scholar Erika Hayasaki probes the connections between history and the present, interview by Roxanne Ray, International Examiner.

UI grad making a name for herself with books, magazine pieces. The News-Gazette, interview by Bob Asmussen.

Erika Hayasaki explores an adoption that separated twins in ‘Somewhere Sisters.’ The Orange County Register, interview by Caitlin Antonios.

UC Irvine Professor Erika Hayasaki Shares the True Story of Reunited Twins. Orange Coast Magazine, interview by Valerie Takahama.

Harvard Book Store: Erika Hayasaki with Indigo Willing: Somewhere Sisters.

Seattle Town Hall Arts & Culture Podcast: Erika Hayasaki with Grace Madigan: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family

The Vietnamese podcast, interview by Kenneth Nguyen.

The Bánh Mì Chronicles, interview by Randy Kim.

Lit Hub: Somewhere Sisters: A Complex Story of Adoption, Identity, and Family, interview by Keen On.

Longreads interviews 11 women writers on writing “The First Book, an apocryphal publishing milestone.

The College Course That’s All About Death, The Atlantic, interview by Hope Reese.

WNYC’s The Leonard Lopate Show, Nurse Norma Bowe explains why she decided to teach a college course on death and why it became so popular. She’s joined by journalist Erika Hayasaki, to discuss how Norma worked with four extraordinary students from struggling families and difficult neighborhoods toward happiness.

NPR Weekend Edition: “Death Class Taught Students A Lot About Life,” hosted by Rachel Martin.

‘Death Class’ Puts Emphasis on Living Fully, the Los Angeles Times, interview by Joseph Lappin.