Karen Tei Yamashita

Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books, including I Hotel, finalist for the National Book Award, and most recently, Letters to Memory, all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a U.S. Artists’ Ford Foundation Fellowship, she is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Karen Tei Yamashita on Seeking Stories in the Soil

“Undo the shame of forgetting. Dig and sift through dark soil. Feel its texture.”

May 10, 2024 By Karen Tei Yamashita

Karen Tei Yamashita is a Full-Fledged Jane Austenite Now

The Sansei and Sensibility Author on Cooking, Napping, and Austen

May 13, 2020 By Karen Tei Yamashita

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