Gail Tsukiyama

American novelist

Gail Tsukiyama
Born	San Francisco, California, U.S.
Education	San Francisco State University (BA, MA)
Occupation	Author

Gail Tsukiyama is an American novelist from San Francisco, California, USA.^[1]

Early life

Tsukiyama was born in San Francisco, to a Japanese father and a Chinese mother. She attended San Francisco State University, where she received both her Bachelor of Arts Degree and a Master of Arts Degree in English with an emphasis in creative writing.

Career

Tsukiyama works as a part-time lecturer for San Francisco State University and a freelance book-reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle.

Tsukiyama is an alumna of the Ragdale Foundation.^[2] She lives in El Cerrito, California.

Works

Tsukiyama was one of nine fiction authors to appear during the first Library of Congress National Book Festival.^[3] Her works include Women of the Silk (1991), The Samurai's Garden (1995), Night of Many Dreams (1998), The Language of Threads (1999), Dreaming Water (2002), The Street of a Thousand Blossoms (2007), A Hundred Flowers (2012),^[4] and The Color of Air (2020).^[5]

References

^ "Gail Tsukiyama | Authors". US Macmillan. Macmillan. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
^ Larson, Jean. "Lake Forest Reads: Ragdale 2013". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
^ "Gail Tsukiyama: 2012 National Book Festival". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
^ "Gail Tsukiyama". www.fantasticfiction.com. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
^ "The Color of Air by Gail Tsukiyama". www.fantasticfiction.com. Retrieved 2020-06-19.