Mako Yoshikawa Explained

Mako Yoshikawa
Birth Date:	1966
Nationality:	American
Alma Mater:	University of Michigan
Occupation:	Novelist

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]

External links

• Official Site
• http://www.emerson.edu/academics/faculty-guide/profile/mako-yoshikawa/636
• The Bunting Institute

Notes and References

1. Book: Yoshikawa, Mako. One Hundred and One Ways. registration. Bantam. May 4, 1999. 978-0-553-11099-9.
2. Web site: Mako Yoshikawa. 2009-11-15.
3. Book: Yoshikawa, Mako. Once Removed. Bantam. June 29, 2004. 978-0-553-38098-9. registration.
4. Web site: My Father's Women | the Missouri Review.
5. Web site: Archived copy . 2015-01-11 . 2015-09-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150922175209/http://www.missourireview.com/archives/bbarticle/the-veterans-project-number-two/ . dead .
6. http://www.usi.edu/sir/archives/2014Spring.aspx{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
7. http://www.usi.edu/sir/archives/2012Fall.aspx{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
8. Web site: Harvard Review 45 | Harvard Review Online . 2019-05-11 . https://archive.today/20150117111311/http://harvardreview.fas.harvard.edu/?q=print-issues/harvard-review-45 . 2015-01-17 . dead .
9. Web site: The Best American Series | HMH Books.
10. Web site: The Bunting Institute. 2009-12-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20081025094054/http://www.radcliffe.edu/about/quarterly/spring2004.aspx. 2008-10-25. dead.
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. Web site: Faculty Guide. 16 June 2023 .