Her memoir, “ Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye,” explores how the Japanese cope with grief and tragedy and is set against the backdrop of the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in T ōhoku, Japan and her family’s 350 year old Buddhist temple. A novel, “The Tree Doctor,” is forthcoming from Graywolf Press, along with a series of essays titled “How to Be a Californian.” Her recent work continues to focus on the intersections of race, place, faith and the natural world, with a special interest in city versus country, “modern” versus old, and East and West. “American Harvest” won the 2021 Northern California Book Award for General Nonfiction and the Nebraska Book Award for Nonfiction. Her most recent book, “ American Harvest: God, Country and Farming in the American Heartland,” is set in seven agricultural and heartland states, and was published in hardcover by Graywolf Press on April 7, 2020. She received her MFA from the Bennington Writers Seminars. Marie was born and raised in California to a Japanese mother and American father, and graduated from Columbia University with a degree in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, where she wrote about female shamans in Japan.
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