Suzanne Kamata (born September 29, 1965) is an American author and educator.

About

Kamata was born in

Grand Haven, Michigan Grand Haven is a city within the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Ottawa County, Michigan, Ottawa County. Grand Haven is located on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Grand River (Michigan), Grand River, for which ...

on September 29, 1965. She studied at

Kalamazoo College Kalamazoo College is a private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Founded in 1833 by American Baptist Churches USA, Baptist ministers as the Michigan and Huron Institute, K ...

, the

University of South Carolina The University of South Carolina (USC, SC, or Carolina) is a Public university, public research university in Columbia, South Carolina, United States. Founded in 1801 as South Carolina College, It is the flagship of the University of South Car ...

, and has an MFA in

creative writing Creative writing is any writing that goes beyond the boundaries of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on craft and technique, such as narrative structure, character ...

from the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a Public university, public research university with campuses near University of British Columbia Vancouver, Vancouver and University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, in British Columbia, Canada ...

. She is an associate professor at Naruto University of Education in Japan.

Awards and honors

* 2019 NCT Asia (National Consortium for Teaching About Asia) Honorable Mention YA/High School Literature - for ''Indigo Girl'' * 2014

Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature The Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature (APAAL) are a set of literary awards presented annually by the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA). The APALA was formed in 1980 "to create an organization that would address the n ...

, Honor Award - for ''Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible'' * 2014 Skipping Stones, Multicultural and International Honor Award - for ''Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible'' * 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Finalist - for ''Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible'' * Named Book of Outstanding Merit by Bank Street College - ''Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible'' * Grand Prize Winner of the Paris Book Festival - for ''Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible'' * Sakura Medal Nominee - for ''Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible'' * International Book Award Winner for YA - ''Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible''

Publications

Her short stories, essays, articles and book reviews have appeared in over 100 publications including ''Real Simple'', ''Brain'', ''Child'', ''Cicada'', and ''The Japan Times''.

Novels

*2008 ''Losing Kei'' (Leapfrog Press, 2008) *2013 ''Gadget Girl: The Art'' ''of Being'' ''Invisible'' (GemmaMedia, 2013) *2014 ''Screaming Divas'' (Simon Pulse, 2014) *2017 ''The Mermaids of Lake Michigan'' (Wyatt-Mackenzie, 2017) *2019 ''Indigo Girl'' (GemmaMedia, 2019)

Travel memoirs

*2017 ''A Girls’ Guide to the'' ''Islands'' (Gemma Open Door, 2017) *2019 ''Squeaky Wheels: Travels with my Daughter by Train, Plane, Metro, Tuk-tuk and Wheelchair'' (Wyatt-Mackenzie, 2019)

Short story collection

*''The Beautiful One Has Come''

References

External links

Suzanne Kamata website

Interview - on Writing Matters
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