Mako Yoshikawa
Born1966
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
OccupationNovelist

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]

References

  1. ^ Yoshikawa, Mako (May 4, 1999). One Hundred and One Ways. Bantam. ISBN 978-0-553-11099-9.
  2. ^ a b "Mako Yoshikawa". Retrieved 2009-11-15.
  3. ^ Yoshikawa, Mako (June 29, 2004). Once Removed. Bantam. ISBN 978-0-553-38098-9.
  4. ^ "My Father's Women | the Missouri Review".
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-22. Retrieved 2015-01-11.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ http://www.usi.edu/sir/archives/2014Spring.aspx[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ http://www.usi.edu/sir/archives/2012Fall.aspx[permanent dead link]
  8. ^ "Harvard Review 45 | Harvard Review Online". Archived from the original on 2015-01-17. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  9. ^ "The Best American Series | HMH Books".
  10. ^ "The Bunting Institute". Archived from the original on 2008-10-25. Retrieved 2009-12-03.
  11. ^ See “The New Face of Incest?: Race, Class, and the Controversy over Kathryn Harrison’s The Kiss.” Incest and the Literary Imagination, ed. Elizabeth Barnes, University of Florida Press. Fall 2002. And “‘A Kind of Family Feeling about Nancy’: Race and the Hidden Threat of Incest in Sapphira and the Slave Girl.” Willa Cather’s Southern Connections, ed. Ann Romines, University of Virginia Press. Fall 2000.
  12. ^ "Faculty Guide". 16 June 2023.

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