Suzanne Kamata's books include Losing Kei; The Beautiful One Has Come, (long-listed for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award); and three anthologies. Her short stories and essays have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize five times. Her fiction for young adults also appears in Hunger Mountain and Tomo: Friendship Through Fiction - An Anthology of Japan Teen Stories (Stone Bridge Press) edited by Holly Thompson. Suzanne Kamata lives in Tokushima, Japan with her husband and bicultural twins.