Mako Yoshikawa

Mako Yoshikawa is the author of the novels Once Removed and One Hundred and One Ways. Her essays have been published in Lit Hub, Harvard Review, Southern Indiana Review, Missouri Review, and Best American Essays , among other places. She is a professor of creative writing and directs the MFA program at Emerson College. She lives in Boston and Baltimore.

Mako Yoshikawa on How Making Sushi Can Improve Your Writing

“What I needed to do was to hear, think about, and implement the feedback while still thinking of the process as play.”

February 9, 2024 By Mako Yoshikawa

A Monster No Matter What: On Being Unable to Grieve for My Father

"Maybe I Could Feel Pity, If Not Grief and Love"

September 20, 2017 By Mako Yoshikawa

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