Background
Although she was born in Japan, she grew up in Belgium, Japan, California, and Tennessee due to her father"s job transfers.
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Mariko Nagai
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New York University.
Career
She received an undergraduate degree from Boston University, and later a graduate degree from New York University. She is an Associate Professor of creative writing and Japanese literature at Temple University, Japan Campus in Tokyo.
Achievements
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Erich Maria Remarque Fellowship from New York University Fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, and Akademie Schloss Solitude United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization-Aschberg Bursaries for the Arts Pushcart Prize for her poetry and fiction Benjamin Saltman Prize from Red Hen Press for Histories of Bodies Gordhandas Sunderdas Sharat Chandra Fiction Prize (2009) from BkMk Press for Georgic: Stories.
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Nationality
Japanese
Education
Awards
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Erich Maria Remarque Fellowship from New York University Fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, and Akademie Schloss Solitude UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for the Arts Pushcart Prize for her poetry and fiction Benjamin Saltman Prize from Red Hen Press for Histories of Bodies G.S. Sharat Chandra Fiction Prize (2009) from BkMk Press for Georgic: Stories The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.Erich Maria Remarque Fellowship from New York University Fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, and Akademie Schloss Solitude UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for the Arts Pushcart Prize for her poetry and fiction Benjamin Saltman Prize from Red Hen Press for Histories of Bodies G.S. Sharat Chandra Fiction Prize (2009) from BkMk Press for Georgic: Stories The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.