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Pamela Alexander | Kazim Ali | Dan Chaon | Sylvia Watanabe
Sylvia Watanabe
Her awards include an O.Henry, a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the NEA and the Ohio Arts Council. She has a novel forthcoming from Graywolf Press. With Dan Chaon, she co-directs the Creative Writing Program at Oberlin College.
Split Rock Art Center Mentoring Program Journal of American Studies (2001), 35: 47-64 Cambridge University Press
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Sylvia
Watanabe’s first collection of stories, Talking to the Dead
(Doubleday, 1993), was a finalist for the PEN Faulkner Award for fiction
and was named one of the ten best books of 1993 by People magazine.
Her nonfiction has been featured in numerous anthologies, including The
Business of Memory, ed. Charles Baxter and Between Friends,
ed. Mickey Pearlman. Watanabe is co-editor, with Carol Bruchac, of two
anthologies of Asian American fiction, Into the Fire and Home
to Stay, and is a founding editor of Vespertine, a periodic
journal of multicultural writing. 