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Tomoko Kuribayashi

Tomoko Kuribayashi earned her MA and Ph.D. degrees from Universities of Tokyo, Alberta, and Minnesota, and has taught courses in literature, composition, and women's studies in Minnesota and Vermont for the last nine years. She specializes in contemporary fiction, mainly by women and minority writers from the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain, and has co-edited a collection of articles on women writers, Creating Safe Space: Violence and Women's Writing, published by SUNY Press in 1998. She has also researched twentieth-century Japanese women writers and is currently editing a collection of articles on the same, titled The Outsider Within: Ten Essays on Modern Japanese Women Writers and to be published next spring.