Gail Tsukiyama
Author of numerous bestselling literary novels
Gail Tsukiyama is the author of a number of bestselling literary novels. Her first, Women of the Silk, was published in 1991. Her second, The Samurai’s Garden, was published in 1995, followed by Night of Many Dreams in 1998 and The Language of Threads in May 2002. Her latest novel is The Street of a Thousand Blossoms, published in 2007. A resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, she has taught creative writing at San Francisco State University and the University of California, Berkeley, and has been a freelance book reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle. During 1997 to 1999, and again in 2006, she sat as a judge for the Kiriyama Book Prize and is Book Review Editor for Pacific Rim Voices. In September 2001, she was one of 50 authors chosen by the Library of Congress to participate in the first National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., and has been guest speaker at the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, the Sydney Writers’ Festival, and the Vancouver International Writers Festival. Web site: us.macmillan.com/author/gailtsukiyama
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