| Gail Tsukiyama | |
| Birth Place: | San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Education: | San Francisco State University (BA, MA) |
| Occupation: | Author |
Gail Tsukiyama is an American novelist from San Francisco, California, USA.[1]
Tsukiyama was born in San Francisco, to a Japanese father and a Chinese mother. She attended San Francisco State University, where she received both her Bachelor of Arts Degree and a Master of Arts Degree in English with an emphasis in creative writing.
Tsukiyama works as a part-time lecturer for San Francisco State University and a freelance book-reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Tsukiyama is an alumna of the Ragdale Foundation.[2] She lives in El Cerrito, California.
Tsukiyama was one of nine fiction authors to appear during the first Library of Congress National Book Festival.[3] Her works include Women of the Silk (1991), The Samurai's Garden (1995), Night of Many Dreams (1998), The Language of Threads (1999), Dreaming Water (2002), The Street of a Thousand Blossoms (2007), A Hundred Flowers (2012),[4] and The Color of Air (2020).[5]