Yuko Taniguchi (born in Yokohama, Japan) is a Japanese American poet and novelist.

Life

She graduated from the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University and from the University of Minnesota with a Master of Fine Arts degree.

She teaches at the University of Minnesota.^[1]

Awards

• 2008 American Book Award (The Before Columbus Foundation)
• Finalist, The Dayton Literary Peace Prize ^[2]
• Finalist, 11th Annual Asian American Literary Awards
• 2008 Kiriyama Prize Notable Book
• 15th Annual Skipping Stones Honor Awards
• Finalist, Literary Fiction category for ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards^[3]
• Honorable Mention, The 2007 Gustayus Myers Center Outstanding Book Awards Advancing Human Rights

Works

Poetry

• Foreign Wife Elegy. Coffee House Press. 2004. ISBN 978-1-56689-148-6. Yuko Taniguchi.

Novels

• The Ocean in the Closet. Coffee House Press. 2007. ISBN 978-1-56689-194-3.