Marie Mutsuki Mockett is the author of two novels, including the recently published "The Tree Doctor" from Graywolf Press. She has written two books of nonfiction: Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye, which was a finalist for the PEN Open Book Award and American Harvest: God, Country and Farming in the Heartland. She has written for the New York Times, Salon, National Geographic, Glamour, Ploughshares, and other publications and has been a guest on The World, Talk of the Nation and All Things Considered on NPR. She is a core faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars. She lives in San Francisco and Tokyo and was a Fulbright Scholar to Japan in 2022-2023.

Website: www.mariemockett.com

Publications

• The Tree Doctor , Graywolf Press (March 19, 2024)
• American Harvest , Graywolf Press (April 2020)
• Where the Dead Pause and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey , Norton (March 2015)
• Picking Bones from Ash , Graywolf (October 2009)

Awards

• Fulbright Scholar to Japan(2023)
• Nebraska Book Award Nonfiction(2021)
• Northern California Book Winner Nonfiction(2021)
• Fellow: Japan US Friendship Commission/NEA(2013)
• Short Listed Saroyan International Prize for Writing(2010)
• Long Listed Asian American Literary Awards(2010)
• Finalist for Paterson Prize(2010)
• Scholar: Bread Loaf Writers Conference(2009)
• PEN Open Book Award Finalist(2015)

Employment

• Instructor at Bennington Writing Seminars (January 2020 - )

Degrees

• Master of Fine Arts in Writing from Bennington Writing Seminars (June 2019)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Poetry