Mako Yoshikawa | |
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Born | 1966 |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Michigan |
Occupation | Novelist |
Mako Yoshikawa (born 1966) is an American novelist. She is the author of two novels, One Hundred and One Ways (1999), a national bestseller that was also translated into six languages, [1] [2] and Once Removed (2003). [3]
Her recent work includes personal essays that have won awards and appeared in important literary journals and anthologies including: The Missouri Review, [4] [5] Southern Indiana Review, [6] [7] Harvard Review, [8] and Best American Essays 2013. Eds. Cheryl Strayed and Robert Atwan. [9]
Yoshikawa grew up in Princeton, New Jersey but spent two years of her childhood in Tokyo, Japan. She received a BA in English literature from Columbia University, a Masters in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama at Lincoln College, Oxford, and a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. [2] She is the recipient of the Vera M. Schuyler Fellowship at The Bunting Institute of Harvard University. [10]
She has also published scholarly essays on race and incest in American literature. [11]
She lives in the Boston area and is a professor of creative writing at Emerson College. [12]
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