Gaijin Mama

Earlier this year I was invited to participate in the Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet to help launch The Best Asian Short Stories 2017 anthology published by Kitaab International in Singapore. I...

https://gaijinmama.wordpress.com/2018/03/24/the-tata-steel-kolkata-literary-meet/

When my twins were about three years old, we were at a party with several bicultural families. One guest, an American married to a Japanese woman, and father of three neurotypical children, looke...

https://gaijinmama.wordpress.com/2017/10/21/usa-is-the-best-country-in-the-world-for-the-disabled-or-not/

I’m so proud to announce the publication of A Girls’ Guide to the Islands, a nonfiction acccount of traveling around the Inland Sea of Japan with my daughter, who is deaf and uses a wheelchai...

https://gaijinmama.wordpress.com/2017/04/16/announcing-a-girls-guide-to-the-islands/

When I was “home” in South Carolina last month, I dug up my high school diary and some old clips — my first media hits! The one below is from the sadly now defunct Neighbors  section of Th...

https://gaijinmama.wordpress.com/2016/10/01/on-wanting-to-write-some-great-american-masterpiece/

  As far as I know, my seventeen-year-old daughter had never met a Muslim before. At her Special Support School for the Deaf and Blind in Western Japan, she is the Other. She uses a wheelchair, ...

https://gaijinmama.wordpress.com/2016/09/26/the-woman-in-the-pink-hijab/

I wrote a blog post for Beacon Broadside on last week’s slaughter of 19 people, and the attack on 26 others in a home for individuals with disabilities in Japan. You can read it here.

https://gaijinmama.wordpress.com/2016/08/02/some-thoughts-on-the-mass-murder-of-19-people-with-disabilities-in-japan/

I’m so excited to report that my mother/daughter travel memoir was named Best Novel/Biography in the inaugural Half the World Global Literati Awards! (See details below!) Global, July 15, 2016 ...

https://gaijinmama.wordpress.com/2016/07/17/squeaky-wheels-is-a-winner/

Exciting news! My novel The Mermaids of Lake Michigan will be published in February by Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing! Here’s the cover:   And here’s how the deal was announced in Publisher’s ...

https://gaijinmama.wordpress.com/2016/06/30/the-mermaids-of-lake-michigan/

  Imperfect Strangers is a murder mystery set in small-town, present-day Japan. President Nomura, head of a university in a western prefecture of Japan, is found with his throat slit in his offi...

https://gaijinmama.wordpress.com/2016/06/30/contemporary-japan-in-crime-fiction/

I have some exciting news! My mother-daughter travel memoir Squeaky Wheels, a celebration of accessibility, art, girl power, and Paris (among other things) has been named a finalist for the Half ...

https://gaijinmama.wordpress.com/2016/06/26/squeaky-wheels-is-on-the-shortlist-please-vote/