
Yurina Yoshikawa was born in Tokyo, Japan, and has lived in Palo Alto and New York City before settling down in Nashville, Tennessee, where she currently teaches creative writing through a local non-profit called The Porch Writers Collective. She received her BA in philosophy from Barnard College and MFA in fiction from Columbia University. She is at work on a novel, and her essays have appeared in The New Inquiry, among others. To learn more, visit www.yurinako.com, or follow her on Twitter @yk_yoshikawa. Photo by Elaine Akin.