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Yuko Taniguchi (born in Yokohama, Japan) is a Japanese American poet and novelist.

Life

She graduated from the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University and from the University of Minnesota with a Master of Fine Arts degree.

She teaches at the University of Minnesota.

Awards

• 2008 American Book Award (The Before Columbus Foundation)
• Finalist, The Dayton Literary Peace Prize
• Finalist, 11th Annual Asian American Literary Awards
• 2008 Kiriyama Prize Notable Book
• 15th Annual Skipping Stones Honor Awards
• Finalist, Literary Fiction category for ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards
• Honorable Mention, The 2007 Gustayus Myers Center Outstanding Book Awards Advancing Human Rights

Works

Poetry

• Foreign Wife Elegy. Coffee House Press. 2004. ISBN 978-1-56689-148-6. Yuko Taniguchi.

Novels

• The Ocean in the Closet. Coffee House Press. 2007. ISBN 978-1-56689-194-3.

References

1. "Yuko Taniguchi, M.F.A. : Faculty & Staff : Center for Learning Innovation (CLI) : Research : University of Minnesota | Rochester". Archived from the original on June 9, 2010. Retrieved October 20, 2009.
2. "CSB Alumnae & Friends – CSB/SJU". www.csbsju.edu. Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
3. "The Ocean in the Closet is a 2007 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award finalist". Foreword Reviews. Retrieved 30 October 2018.

External links

• "Author's website"
• "University of Minnesota, Rochester Faculty page

• 1975 births
• Living people
• 21st-century American novelists
• American poets of Asian descent
• American women writers of Asian descent
• American women novelists
• University of Minnesota faculty
• University of Minnesota alumni
• American writers of Japanese descent
• Writers from Yokohama
• Japanese emigrants to the United States
• American novelists of Asian descent
• 21st-century American women writers
• 21st-century American poets
• American women poets
• American Book Award winners
• Novelists from Minnesota
• American women academics