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Wendy Nelson Tokunaga is the author of the novels, Midori by Moonlight and Love in Translation, Falling Uphill, His Wife and Daughters and the award-winning No Kidding. Her latest book is a collection of short stories called Postcards From Tokyo. Her non-fiction title is Marriage in Translation: Foreign Wife, Japanese Husband. She received her MFA from University of San Francisco and has her own private editing practice, specializing in novels and memoirs. She also teaches for Stanford’s Online Writer’s Studio Novel Certificate Program. Visit her at www.WendyTokunaga.com and follow her on Twitter at @Wendy_Tokunaga.