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From my blurb on the newspaper's site: "Kiri Mori is a member of the Class of 2034 at the University of Alaska's Fairbanks campus, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism with a minor in Political Science. As a relatively new member of the staff at the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, she's still finding her footing, but largely covers local events and Fortean issues. Her long-term career goal is to become a full-fledged investigative journalist."
I come from a very diverse family; my mother is a kitsune in service to Inari as a Messenger, my father is a Jewish-American human, and as you can see from my photo, I'm now a ghost, specifically a yūrei. I also have a sister who inherited our mother's kitsune heritage.
I was born in Izumo, Japan in 2013 and lived in Iwakuni, where my mother worked as a nurse and my father was stationed at the city's Marine Corps base, until the Events of 2019. We missed the evacuations due to being on a trip to the mountains, and my father effectively deserted the Marines to take care of us; for some years we lived all over Japan and in various refugee camps and holdout cities in Siberia before we were able to settle in my mother's homeland of Ketorushima. It was only a few years ago that the Amnesty allowed my father to move with us to Alaska, and I've been in Chena ever since!
I've known for a long time that journalism was my calling. My experiences in Japan and other places abandoned during the height of the Events, and those of others I was exposed to, made me acutely aware of just how many people and stories go unseen and unheard by the wider world. As a teenager I wrote my own "newspapers" several times, often with myself as the only audience, putting to paper what I'd heard from others and what injustices I found. The latter actually led to us having to move again, one time.
Moving to Alaska gave me the opportunity to attend university and pursue Journalism as a major. Before graduating I interned at the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, and afterward I was able to get a position there. I'm still a fairly new employee there, so I'm only sometimes doing actual reporting work and writing articles, but I've been getting more and more involved; if you read an article about local occurrences or on issues affecting my fellow youkai/fortean citizens, it might be my work!
My long-term goal is to become a proper investigative journalist, exposing injustices and telling unheard stories like I tried (and sometimes failed) to do as a child. My current state might help with that; the truth can't hide from someone who can step through walls!
Aside from my career, I spend a lot of time reading, and am a hobbyist photographer, though it can be difficult for me to handle a camera. I'm also a big fan of classic movies thanks to my dad, and of older music, both from his record collection and of genres I've discovered on my own like jazz fusion.
Time to give you the scoop on the elephant in the room: Yup, I'm a ghost. Dead, undead, take your pick. I'm not going to get into the details here, but I had an unscheduled meeting with the metaphorical grim reaper back in the Arctic and ended up not going back for the second interview. There's no need to be scared of me; the few times I've tried to be scary it's ended pretty embarassingly, actually. I'm still the same old me, in every way that matters.
I've been lucky to have a supportive family, and to be living in a welcoming community; my mother ironically has experience as an exorcist, which proved helpful in a way I wouldn't have expected, and despite the lacking state of support for lingering spirits - which I should really write a piece on, if I can find another case study - I have had the fortune of seeing a reputable parapsychologist. I'm also proud to be the first spirit to graduate from the Alaskan university system, in a bittersweet sort of way.