Marie Mutsuki Mockett

Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s memoir, Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye (W. W. Norton, 2016), was a finalist for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award, Indies Choice Best Book for Nonfiction and the Northern California Book Award for Creative Nonfiction. Her work in progress, A Kernel in God’s Eye, forthcoming from Graywolf, follows her journey through seven red agricultural states in the company of evangelical Christian harvesters, and was a finalist for the Lukas Prize, awarded by Columbia and Harvard University’s schools of journalism.