Mariko Nagai

Mariko Nagai (born in 1974 in Tokyo) 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]

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

Books
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  1. Kamata, Suzanne (March 22, 2014). "Born in Japan, made in America". The Japan Times. Retrieved March 23, 2014.
  2. "Associate Professor Mariko NAGAI". Retrieved June 19, 2019.


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