Waters, Mary Yukari

Mary Yukari Waters is half Japanese and half Irish-American. The recipient of an O. Henry award, a Pushcart Prize, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, she has been published in "The" "Best American Short Stories 2002 ""and 2003, ""The Pushcart Book of Short Stories: The Best Stories from a Quarter-Century of the Pushcart Prize, "and "Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope 2" anthology"." She earned her MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and lives in Los Angeles.