Suzanne Kamata

Suzanne Kamata is an award-winning American author and educator.

Kamata was born in Grand Haven, Michigan. She studied at the University of South Carolina, and has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. She is an associate professor at Naruto University of Education in Japan.

2019 NCT Asia (National Consortium for Teaching About Asia) Honorable Mention YA/High School Literature - for Indigo Girl

2014Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, Honor Award - for Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible

2014Skipping Stones, Multicultural and International Honor Award - for Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible

2013Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Finalist - for Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible

Named Book of Outstanding Merit by Bank Street College - Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible

Grand Prize Winner of the Paris Book Festival - for Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible

Sakura Medal Nominee - for Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible

International Book Award Winner for YA - Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible

Her short stories, essays, articles and book reviews have appeared in over 100 publications including Real Simple, Brain, Child, Cicada, and The Japan Times.

Novels

• 2008Losing Kei (Leapfrog Press, 2008)
• 2013Gadget Girl: The Art of Being Invisible (GemmaMedia, 2013)
• 2014Screaming Divas (Simon Pulse, 2014)
• 2017The Mermaids of Lake Michigan (Wyatt-Mackenzie, 2017)
• 2019Indigo Girl (GemmaMedia, 2019)

Travel memoirs

• 2017A Girls’ Guide to the Islands (Gemma Open Door, 2017)
• 2019Squeaky Wheels: Travels with my Daughter by Train, Plane, Metro, Tuk-tuk and Wheelchair (Wyatt-Mackenzie, 2019)

Short story collection

• The Beautiful One Has Come