Tue, Mar 12
|Washington
Off the Rack: A Conversation with Kyoko Mori & Mako Yoshikawa
Please join us as we welcome these two esteemed writers in conversation with each other about their forthcoming memoirs.
Time & Location
Mar 12, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Washington, 1299 Pennsylvania Avenue NW E Street between 12th and, 13th St NW, Washington, DC 20004, USA
Guests
About the event
Join award-winning writers and professors of writing, Kyoko Mori & Mako Yoshikawa for the launch of their forthcoming memoirs.
Kyoko Mori’s award-winning novel, Shizuko’s Daughter, was hailed by The New York Times as “a jewel of a book, one of those rarities that shine out only a few times in a generation.” Her many critically acclaimed books include Yarn, Polite Lies, The Dream of Water (nonfiction) and Stone Field True Arrow and One Bird (fiction). Her essays and short stories have appeared in The American Scholar, the Harvard Review, the Kenyon Review, and the Best American Essays, among others.
She has taught at Harvard University and Goucher College and is currently on the faculty of George Mason and Lesley Universities.
Mako Yoshikawa is the author of the novels One Hundred and One Ways and Once Removed. Her novels have been translated into six languages; awards include a Massachusetts Cultural Council…