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 Holly Thompson was raised in New England, earned her B.A. in biology from Mount Holyoke College and 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. Holly's fiction is often set in Japan. Her forthcoming YA novel-in-verse Orchards (Delacorte, 2011) is about a half Japanese and half Jewish-American girl sent to spend the summer with Shizuoka relatives after the death of a classmate. 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 picture book The Wakame Gatherers (Shen's Books, 2007) depicts a bicultural girl who goes seaweed gathering with her Japanese and American grandmothers. Her short stories and articles 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). Holly serves as Regional Advisor of the Tokyo chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI Tokyo). Holly Thompson is represented by Jamie Weiss Chilton of the Andrea Brown Literary Agency. E-mail Holly Thompson Follow Holly Thompson on Twitter: @hatbooks Read Holly Thompson's posts on the Society of Writers, Editors and Translators Weblog |
