Holly Thompson


Books

Children's Books
The Wakame Gatherers
Bicultural Nanami goes seaweed gathering with her Japanese and American grandmothers. While translating for the two women she comes to understand they were at war when they were her age.
Novels - YA, Adult
Ash - A Novel
"A wonderfully insightful novel about a young woman living within two cultures. Thompson adeptly explores the lasting bonds of friendship and the courage needed to face the past in order to embrace the future."—Gail Tsukiyama, author of Women of the Silk and The Samurai’s Garden
Short Stories
The Broken Bridge: Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan
This anthology of short stories by expatriates in Japan was edited by Suzanne Kamata and features Holly Thompson's story "Bloodlines."



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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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