Asako Serizawa was born in Japan and spent her precollege life in Singapore, Jakarta, and Tokyo. Her stories have appeared in The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, The Antioch Review, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2013, and the 2016 Pushcart Prize anthology. A recent Fiction Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and a recipient of a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, she has received grants from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation and the Vermont Studio Center.