Amano, Keiko

Keiko Amano was born and reared in Yokohama, Japan. She writes both in English and Japanese. Her short stories were published, from most recently, in the East Jasmine Review of Southern California, the Bicycle Review of San Francisco, Contemporary Literary Horizon of Bucharest, Romania, and Eye-Ai Magazine of Tokyo. She was an infrastructure systems programmer for large business computers for many years. After her mother died in October 1996, she seriously decided to write in English and dived in to tell her mother's story.