Mariko Nagai is a Japanese-born poet and writer who writes in English. Although she was born in Japan, she grew up in Belgium, Japan, California, and Tennessee due to her father's job transfers. She received an undergraduate degree from Boston University, and later a graduate degree from New York University.[1]

Mariko Nagai
BornTokyo, Japan
OccupationPoet and writer
LanguageEnglish
Alma materNew York University

She is a Professor of creative writing and Japanese literature, and director of research at Temple University, Japan Campus in Tokyo.[2]

Books edit

  • Under the Broken Sky, Henry Holt & Co., 2019
  • Irradiated Cities, Les Figues Press, 2017
  • Dust of Eden, Albert Whitman & Co, 2014
  • Instructions for the Living, Word Temple Press, 2012
  • Georgic: Stories, BkMk Press / University of Missouri Kansas City, 2010
  • History of Bodies: Poems, Red Hen Press, 2007

Awards edit

  • 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
  • Finalist in the 2010 Leapfrog Press Global Fiction Prize Contest for Weight of the Land [1]
  • 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

References edit

  1. ^ Kamata, Suzanne (March 22, 2014). "Born in Japan, made in America". The Japan Times. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
  2. ^ "Mariko Nagai". Temple University, Japan Campus. 2021-07-10. Retrieved 2022-02-19.

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