Author's Bio
Sara Backer spent three years in Japan (1990-1993), as the first American and first woman to serve as visiting professor of English at Shizuoka University.
American Fuji was a book club pick of the Honolulu Advertiser and a nominee for the Kiriyama Prize.
Backer, a Djerassi Program artist in residence in 1999, is also a poet whose work has appeared in numerous literary magazines including Poetry, Southern Poetry Review, Poetry Northwest, and Slant. She has taught creative writing at conferences for Cuesta College, Maui Literary Circles, and Northeast Cultural Cooperative. She currently teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and lives in the woods in New Hampshire.
For more personal information and news about events, visit my blog. Here is a slideshow of some photos of Japan from my blog. I explain how and where these scenes appeared inAmerican Fuji.
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