Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of ten books, including I Hotel, Finalist for the National Book Award; most recently, Dark Soil: Fictions & Mythographies; and the forthcoming Questions 27 & 28. Recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 2021 Medal for Distinguished Contributions to American Letters and a United States Artists Ford Foundation Fellowship, she is Professor Emerita of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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