Sequoia Nagamatsu
American writer
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Sequoia Nagamatsu[1] is an American novelist, short story writer, and professor, and the author of the novel How High We Go in the Dark.
- Novelist
- short story writer
- professor
Sequoia Nagamatsu | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | Pinewood School, Los Altos Grinnell College (BA) Southern Illinois University (MFA) |
| Spouse | Cole Nagamatsu |
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Personal life
Nagamatsu received a Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology in 2004 from Grinnell College and a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from Southern Illinois University.[2]
Nagamatsu was born in southern California and raised in Oahu and the San Francisco Bay Area[3] and attended Pinewood School, a private high school in Los Altos Hills, where he began his love of creative writing.[4] He currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with his wife, Cole Nagamatsu, their cat, Kalahira, a dog Fenris, and a Sony Aibo robotic dog named Calvino.[2] He has Japanese roots and lived in Niigata City, Japan for about two years prior to attending graduate school.
Career
Nagamatsu previously taught at the College of Idaho, Southern Illinois University, and the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing.[3]
Aside from writing, Nagamatsu formerly co-edited Psychopomp Magazine alongside his wife and is an associate professor of English at St. Olaf College, where he teaches first-year writing and creative writing courses.[5] He additionally joined the faculty of the low-residency MFA Program, the Rainier Writers Workshop,[6] which is based at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington.
His short story collection Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone was published May 2016 by Black Lawrence Press.
The collection received positive reviews from Booklist,[7] BuzzFeed,[8] Strange Horizons,[9] The Rumpus,[10] and Green Mountains Review.[11]
It also received the following accolades:
- Foreword Reviews Indie Book of the Year Silver Medal winner: Short Stories (Adult Fiction) (2016)[12]
- Foreword Reviews Indie Book of the Year finalist: Multicultural (Adult Fiction) (2016)[12]
- Entropy Magazine Best Books of 2016[13]
His novel How High We Go in the Dark was published in 2022 by William Morrow. The novel received critical praise.
Publications
Books
- Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone. Black Lawrence Press. 2016. ISBN 9781625571366.
- How High We Go in the Dark. William Morrow. 2022. ISBN 9780063072640.
Selected short stories
- "Grave Friends," published Fall 2020 in The Iowa Review[14]
- "Elegy Hotel," published Spring 2020 in The Southern Review[15]
- "The Songs of Your Decay," published April 27, 2016 by Day One
- "Where We Go When All We Were is Gone," published May 15, 2015 in Green Mountain Reviews[16]
- "The Return to Monsterland," published in Conjunctions,[17] then reprinted September 3, 2015 in Joyland[18]
- "Headwater LLC," published December 31st 2014 in Lightspeed, then republished July 26, 2016 in The Museum of All Things Awesome and that Go Boom[19]
- "Placentophagy," published November 21, 2014 in Tin House[20]
- "Melancholy Nights in a Tokyo Cyber Cafe," published May 1, 2009 in One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories[21]