Marie Mutsuki Mockett

Marie Mutsuki Mockett was born to an American father and Japanese mother. American Harvest: God, Country and Farming in the Heartland (Graywolf) won the 2021 Northern California Book Award for General Nonfiction and is a tribute to the complicated and nuanced history of the United States and its people. Her memoir, Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye, (WWNorton) was a finalist for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award. With Kiese Laymon, she a series editor for the new imprint “Great Circle Books” from UNC Press, which aims to publish emerging writers of nonfiction. She lives in San Francisco and teaches at the Bennington Writing Seminars.