Mariko Nagai

Mariko Nagai (born in 1974 in Tokyo) is a Japanese-born poet and writer who writes in English.

Although she was born in Japan, she grew up in Belgium, Japan, California, and Tennessee due to her father's job transfers. She received an undergraduate degree from Boston University, and later a graduate degree from New York University.

She is an Associate Professor of creative writing and Japanese literature at Temple University, Japan Campus in Tokyo.

• Under the Broken Sky, Henry Holt & Co., 2019
• Irradiated Cities, Les Figues Press, 2017
• Dust of Eden, Albert Whitman & Co, 2014
• Instructions for the Living, Word Temple Press, 2012
• Georgic: Stories, BkMk Press/ University of Missouri Kansas City, 2010
• History of Bodies: Poems, Red Hen Press, 2007

• Erich Maria Remarque Fellowship from New York University
• Fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, and Akademie Schloss Solitude
• UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for the Arts
• Pushcart Prize for her poetry and fiction
• Benjamin Saltman Prize from Red Hen Press for Histories of Bodies
• G.S. Sharat Chandra Fiction Prize (2009) from BkMk Press for Georgic: Stories