American Suzanne Kamata has lived in Japan for over thirty years. Her writing has appeared in The Best Asian Short Stories in 2017, 2022 and 2023 and The Best Asian Travel Writing 2020, The APWT Drunken Boat Anthology of New Writing, Telltale Food: Writings from the Fay Khoo Award 2017-2019 and numerous other anthologies. She is the author of a previous short story collection, The Beautiful One Has Come (Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing, 2011) which won a Nautilus Silver Award, and a Next Generation Indie Best award; the young adult novels Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible (GemmaMedia, 2013), named an Honor Book by the Asian American Pacific Librarians Association, and Indigo Girl (GemmaMedia, 2019) a Freeman Honor Book. Her most recent novel is The Baseball Widow (Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing, 2021). She is an associate professor at Naruto University of Education.
