Mako Yoshikawa
American novelist
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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]
Mako Yoshikawa | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1966 (age 59–60) |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan |
| Occupation | Novelist |
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]