Holly Thompson

Holly Thompson was raised in New England, earned her B.A. in biology from Mount Holyoke College and earned her M.A. in English with a concentration in creative writing/fiction from New York University. Long-time resident of Japan, she is a lecturer at Yokohama City University, where she teaches creative writing, academic writing, short stories and American culture. Her novel Ash (Stone Bridge Press, 2001) set in Kagoshima and Kyoto, Japan, has been recommended as a teaching tool in classrooms studying Japan, Asia and intercultural issues. Her short stories have been published in magazines and journals in the United States and Japan and anthologized in The Broken Bridge: Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan (Stone Bridge Press, 1997). Her picture book The Wakame Gatherers (Shen's Books, 2007) depicts a bicultural girl who goes seaweed gathering with her Japanese and American grandmothers. Holly serves as Regional Advisor of the Tokyo chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI Tokyo).

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