MAKO YOSHIKAWA
Yoshikawa, who was born and raised in Princeton, NJ, spent two years of her childhood in Tokyo. She has also lived in England, France, Switzerland, and New Zealand. She attended Columbia University, received a Masters in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama at Lincoln College, Oxford, and has a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Yoshikawa is a professor of creative writing and director of the creative writing graduate program at Emerson College. She lives in Boston and Baltimore.