Gail Tsukiyama

Gail Tsukiyama is an American novelist from San Francisco, California, USA.[1] She was one of nine fiction authors to appear during the first Library of Congress National Book Festival.[2] Her works include Women of the Silk (1991), The Samurai’s Garden (1995), Night of Many Dreams (1998), The Language of Threads (1999), Dreaming Water (2002), The Street of a Thousand Blossoms (2007), and A Hundred Flowers (2012).[3] She is currently writing The Color of Air, which will be released in July 2020.[4]

Gail Tsukiyama
EducationSan Francisco State University
OccupationAuthor

Tsukiyama was born in San Francisco, to a Japanese father and a Chinese mother. She attended San Francisco State University, where she received both her Bachelor of Arts Degree and a Master of Arts Degree in English with an emphasis in creative writing. She lives in El Cerrito, California, and works as a part-time lecturer for San Francisco State University and a freelance book-reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Tsukiyama is an alumna of the Ragdale Foundation.[5]

References
  1. "Gail Tsukiyama | Authors | Macmillan". US Macmillan. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
  2. "Gail Tsukiyama: 2012 National Book Festival". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
  3. "Gail Tsukiyama". www.fantasticfiction.com. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
  4. "The Color of Air by Gail Tsukiyama". www.fantasticfiction.com. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
  5. Larson, Jean. "Lake Forest Reads: Ragdale 2013". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2020-06-19.


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