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English Reading Series
Fridays at Noon in the HBLL Auditorium

Karen Tei Yamashita

Fiction

Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of nine books, including I Hotel, finalist for the National Book Award, and, most recently, Dark Soil, all published by Coffee House Press. Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation, the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature and a U.S. Artists’ Ford Foundation Fellowship, in 2024 Yamashita was inducted as a Literature Fellow in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She is professor emerita of literature and creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz.