Yuko Taniguchi

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Name Yuko Taniguchi Role Poet		Awards American Book Awards

Books The Ocean in the Closet, Foreign Wife Elegy: Poems Education College of Saint Benedict, University of Minnesota

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Yuko Taniguchi (born in Yokohama, Japan) is a Japanese American poet, and novelist.

She graduated from the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University and from the University of Minnesota with a M.F.A.

She teaches at University of Minnesota.

2008 American Book Award (The Before Columbus Foundation)

Finalist, The Dayton Literary Peace Prize

Finalist, 11th Annual Asian American Literary Awards

2008 Kiriyama Prize Notable Book

15th Annual Skipping Stones Honor Awards

Finalist for ForeWord Magazine's Editor's Choice Award

Honorable Mention, The 2007 Gustayus Myers Center Outstanding Book Awards Advancing Human Rights

Foreign Wife Elegy. Coffee House Press. 2004. ISBN 978-1-56689-148-6.

The Ocean in the Closet. Coffee House Press. 2007. ISBN 978-1-56689-194-3.

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