Gail Tsukiyama is an American novelist from San Francisco, California, USA.
[1] Tsukiyama was born in San Francisco, to a Japanese father and a Chinese mother.
She attended San Francisco State University, where she received both her Bachelor of Arts Degree and a Master of Arts Degree in English with an emphasis in creative writing.
Tsukiyama was one of nine fiction authors to appear during the first Library of Congress National Book Festival.
[3] Her works include Women of the Silk (1991), The Samurai's Garden (1995), Night of Many Dreams (1998), The Language of Threads (1999), Dreaming Water (2002), The Street of a Thousand Blossoms (2007), A Hundred Flowers (2012),[4] and The Color of Air (2020).