Education

Columbia University, School of the Arts, M.F.A in Fiction & Nonfiction, 1991

Woolrich Writing Fellow 1989 – 1991

Princeton University, A.B. cum laude in Comparative Literature, 1986

Program in East Asian Studies, (Japanese) Fifth-Year Degree, 1986

Woodrow Wilson Scholarship, 1983-85

Morris M. Cross Poetry Prize, Hon, 1983

East Asian Studies Senior Thesis Prize, 1986

Middlebury College, Intensive Summer Language program, Japanese, 1983