Wendy Nelson Tokunaga American fiction writer and Japanese karaoke singer.

Wendy Nelson Tokunaga

Biography Wendy Nelson Tokunaga was born and raised in San Francisco. She attended Lowell High School and San Francisco State University, and is now finishing up her MFA in Writing at University of San Francisco. Her short stories have appeared in The Abiko Literary Quarterly Review, The Plaza, and Yomimono among others. She is the author of the self-published novel, No Kidding, which won an award in the Mainstream/Literary Fiction category of the Writer’s Digest Best Self-Published Book Awards in 2002, and MIDORI BY MOONLIGHT, published in September 2007 by St. Martin’s Griffin. MIDORI BY MOONLIGHT is a comic, cross-cultural novel, which tells the story of fresh-from-Japan Midori Saito, who finds herself lost in translation in San Francisco as she searches for her American Dream and the perfect dessert, and also is in a constant battle to improve her English and better learn her “idiotmatic” expressions. Tokunaga lives by the ocean thirty miles south of San Francisco with her Osaka-born surfer-dude husband, Manabu Tokunaga and their champagne Burmese cat Meow. Drawing on her extensive experience in studying the Japanese language and culture; living, working and playing in Japan, and her cross-cultural marriage, she explores the theme of why some people feel the need to trade their native culture for a new one.

Causes I Support

  • San Francisco SPCA
    Reading is Fundamental

Agents

  • Marly Rusoff - Rusoff Agency

Contact Agents

  • Marly Rusoff
    Marly Rusoff & Associates, Inc.
    PO Box 524
    Bronxville, NY 10708

    Phone: 914-961-7939

Publishers

  • St. Martin's Griffin

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