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University of Michigan. Columbia University.
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Mako Yoshikawa
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She is the author of two novels, One Hundred and One Ways (1999), a national bestseller that was also translated into six languages, and Once Removed (2003). Eds. Cheryl Strayed and Robert Atwan. Yoshikawa grew up in Princeton, New Jersey but spent two years of her childhood in Tokyo, Japan.
She received a Bachelor in English literature from Columbia University, a Masters in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama at Lincoln College, Oxford, and a Doctor of Philosophy in English literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
She is the recipient of the Vera M. Schuyler Fellowship at The Bunting Institute of Harvard University. She has also published scholarly essays on race and incest in American literature.
She lives in the Boston area and is a professor of creative writing at Emerson College.
