Yarn: Remembering the Way Home
Kyoko Mori’s award-winning first novel,Shizuko's Daughter, was hailed by theNew York Timesas “a jewel of a book, one of those rarities that shine out only a few times in a generation.”  Her many critically acclaimed books includePolite Lies,The Dream of Water, and the novels,Stone Field, True ArrowandOne Bird. Her stories and essays have appeared inThe American Scholar,The Kenyon Review,The Prairie Schooner,Harvard Review,The Best American Essays, and other journals and anthologies. Mori holds a Ph.D. in English/Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She was Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Creative Writing, Harvard (1999-2005) and, for the last 5 years, on the faculty of the Lesley University Low-Residency MFA program in Cambridge. Kyoko Mori is associate professor of English at George Mason University. She lives in Washington, DC .