Marie Mutsuki Mockett was born and raised in California to a Japanese mother and an American father. She’s the author of two acclaimed novels, Picking Bone from Ash, and, most recently, The Tree Doctor, which NPR describes as an excellent novel, “one that beautifully chronicles one woman’s response to a series of life-changing crises.” Ms. Mockett’s other works include American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland and Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Good-bye. A graduate of Columbia University in East Asia Studies, she is a member of the core faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars in Vermont.

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