She is the author of two novels, One Hundred and One Ways (1999), a national bestseller that was also translated into six languages,[1][2] and Once Removed (2003).
[9] Yoshikawa grew up in Princeton, New Jersey but spent two years of her childhood in Tokyo, Japan.
She received a BA in English literature from Columbia University, a Masters in Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama at Lincoln College, Oxford, and a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
[2] She is the recipient of the Vera M. Schuyler Fellowship at The Bunting Institute of Harvard University.
[11] She lives in the Boston area and is a professor of creative writing at Emerson College.