Yurina Yoshikawa

Yurina holds a B.A. from Barnard College and an M.F.A. from Columbia University. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, NPR, Lit Hub, The Japan Times, AAWW’s The Margins, The New Inquiry, The Tennessean, The Pinch, Edible, and elsewhere. She has been awarded the Tennessee True Stories Prize and fellowships from the Tennessee Arts Commission, Hewnoaks, Baldwin For The Arts, and the Southern Arts Prize’s Tennessee State Fellowship. She has lived in Tokyo, Palo Alto, and New York before settling down in Nashville, where she lives with her husband and two sons. She is the Director of Education at The Porch Writers’ Collective and hosts the Japanese literature book club for the Japan-America Society of Tennessee. For more information, visit www.yurinayoshikawa.com.