Kit's work conveys "mono no aware", or the deep resonance in human hearts for things transient, whether decaying buildings, a butterfly's tongue, or leaves iced in layers on an old pond. Her images and the poems that often accompany them stem from, but do not adhere strictly to, the haiku tradition.

[Education]
1982 B.A. with Honors, dual major in English and Art, at Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design.
1988 Master of Fine Arts, University of Michigan.
1991 Ph.D. University of Wisconsin.

[Experience]
1977 Won statewide New Hampshire art competition
1979-80. Cartoonist for The Brown Daily Herald
1980-81 Intern at National Geographic Society. Published illustrations with World Magazine.
1981-82 Design Editor, Issues Magazine,
1982 IBM-sponsored Fellowship to come to Japan. Interviewed artists including Ikeda Masuo, Kusama Yayoi, and Yoko Tadanori.
1982-86 Taught studio art courses, Sankei College.
1990 Solo Photography Exhibition, Linden House Gallery.
1994 Cover illustration for Tokiwa Shimpei�fs Onna no Hito no Yugure no Machi, Kodansha Publishers, Inc.
1995-98 Regular illustrator for Kodansha�fs In-Pocket Magazine.
1997-2002 Photos published in Asahi Weekly, Metropolis, Weekender
2006- Photojournalist with regular column, The Backstreet Stories, in The Japan Times
2011 Shiki, a book of photos and haiku-like poems, to be published 2011
2011 Tokyo Stories, 2 person photo exhibition with Joji Shimamoto, Tobin Ohashi Gallery, Tokyo