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Mako Yoshikawa

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 BAinEnglish 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]

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• Official Site
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• The Bunting Institute