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name: Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
about: Rahna Reiko Rizzuto's third book, Shadow Child, will be published by Grand Central in May 2018. Her memoir, Hiroshima in the Morning, was selected as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Asian American Literary Award, and named the winner of the Grub Street National Book Prize. She is also the author of the novel, Why She Left Us, which won an American Book Award in 2000. Reiko is a recipient of the U.S./Japan Creative Artist Fellowship, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including the L.A. Times and Salon, and she has been a guest on The Today Show, 20/20, The View, among others. She was Associate Editor of The NuyorAsian Anthology: Asian American Writing Rahna Reiko Rizzuto's third book, Shadow Child, will be published by Grand Central in May 2018. Her memoir, Hiroshima in the Morning, was selected as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Asian American Literary Award, and named the winner of the Grub Street National Book Prize. She is also the author of the novel, Why She Left Us, which won an American Book Award in 2000. Reiko is a recipient of the U.S./Japan Creative Artist Fellowship, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including the L.A. Times and Salon, and she has been a guest on The Today Show, 20/20, The View, among others. She was Associate Editor of The NuyorAsian Anthology: Asian American Writings About New York City, and teaches in the MFA program for creative writing at Goddard College. She is the founder of the Pele's Fire Writing Retreat on the Big Island of Hawaii. ...more