American author and educator
Suzanne Kamata (born September 29, 1965) is an American author and educator.[1]
About
Kamata was born in Grand Haven, Michigan on September 29, 1965. She studied at Kalamazoo College, the University of South Carolina, and has an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia.[2] She is an associate professor at Naruto University of Education in Japan.
Publications
Her short stories, essays, articles and book reviews have appeared in over 100 publications including Real Simple, Brain, Child, Cicada, and The Japan Times.
Novels
- 2008 Losing Kei (Leapfrog Press, 2008)
- 2013 Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible (GemmaMedia, 2013)
- 2014 Screaming Divas (Simon Pulse, 2014)
- 2017 The Mermaids of Lake Michigan (Wyatt-Mackenzie, 2017)[6]
- 2019 Indigo Girl (GemmaMedia, 2019)[7]
Travel memoirs
- 2017 A Girls’ Guide to the Islands (Gemma Open Door, 2017)
- 2019 Squeaky Wheels: Travels with my Daughter by Train, Plane, Metro, Tuk-tuk and Wheelchair (Wyatt-Mackenzie, 2019)[8]
Short story collection
- The Beautiful One Has Come