Kyoko Mori

About the Author

Born in Kobe, Japan, Kyoko Mori settled in Wisconsin at the age of sixteen. Now a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in creative writing at Harvard University, she is the author of the prizewinning "Shizuko's Daughter" & four other books. (Bowker Author Biography)

Works by Kyoko Mori

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Shizuko's Daughter (1993) 373 copies

Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures (1997) 142 copies

The Dream of Water (1995) 83 copies

One Bird (1995) 75 copies

Stone Field, True Arrow: A Novel (2000) 68 copies

Yarn: Remembering the Way Home (2009) 61 copies

Fallout (1994) 14 copies

Barn Cat (2013) 8 copies

Cat and Bird: A Memoir (2024) 6 copies

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Associated Works

The Best American Essays 2004 (2004) — Contributor — 292 copies

On the Wings of Peace: Writers and Illustrators Speak Out for Peace, in Memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1995) — Contributor — 98 copies

When I Was Your Age, Volume Two: Original Stories About Growing Up (1999) — Contributor — 92 copies

Grand Mothers: Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories About the Keepers of Our Traditions (1994) — Contributor — 79 copies

The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's Anthology (1989) — Contributor — 66 copies

Face Relations: 11 Stories about Seeing beyond Color (2004) — Contributor — 53 copies

911: The Book of Help (2002) — Contributor — 49 copies

I Believe in Water: Twelve Brushes with Religion (2000) — Contributor — 47 copies

Becoming American: Personal Essays By First Generation Immigrant Women (2000) — Contributor — 26 copies

Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents (2019) — Contributor — 18 copies

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Birthdate: 1957
Gender: female
Nationality: Japan
Occupations: professor
Organizations: George Mason University

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Yarn: Remembering the Way Home by Kyoko Mori

bio of things bookbox;; kind of a look back at mostly the married portion of the author's life, interwoven with her experiences to learn to knit, weave and spin. Interesting that she raised rabbits to spin their hair into yarn and that she hated weaving because you have to calculate threads first, instead of ad hoc knitting until it looked good.

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nancynova | 7 other reviews | May 28, 2024 |

Barn Cat (Open Door) by Kyoko Mori

Barn Cat offers a gentle, strange, and ultimately beautiful tale!

Wildlife Jill and the kitten are my favorite characters:
I can smell the mint where the kitten goes wandering.

Sure hope that many more readers find and enjoy it, wishing that it would not end so soon.

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m.belljackson | 2 other reviews | Sep 16, 2023 |

Fallout by Kyoko Mori

At some point I scribbled on my bookmark: this is what memory should be.

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Kiramke | 1 other review | Jun 27, 2023 |

Fallout by Kyoko Mori

Most of the poems feel very personal >

these resonated for me:

TO MY ANCESTRAL SPIRITS

THE PERCEPTION OF GROUND GLASS

THE ART OF SELLING: Settling into his
hammock, suspended in warm air, he would

let the river spin its scenery past him

FIVE MEDITATIONS > "The Urn of Flowers"

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m.belljackson | 1 other review | Jun 5, 2022 |

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