Contributors & Interviews

Editor and Foreword--Holly Thompson

Publisher--Stone Bridge Press

Tomo Contributors and Interviews

Below is a full list of the authors, translators and illustrators whose work is featured in Tomo.  Be sure to click on Interviews. These interviews offer information about the settings and cultural details of the stories, historical contexts, photos, links, and background information about the authors and translators. At the end of each interview is a message for teens in the Tohoku region of Japan affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. 
 

Naoko Awa author

Deni Y. Bechard author (Interview)

Jennifer Fumiko Cahill author (Interview)

Juliet Winters Carpenter translator (Interview)

John Paul Catton author (Interview)

Yukie Chiri translator/transcriber

Chloë Dalby author (Interview)

Liza Dalby author (Interview)
Deborah Davidson translator/illustrator (Interview) (Japan Times Article)

Claire Dawn author (Interview)

Charles De Wolf author (Interview) (Japan Times Article)

Megumi Fujino author

Andrew Fukuda author (Interview)

Alan Gratz author (Interview)

Katrina Toshiko Grigg-Saito author (Interview)

Sako Ikegami translator (Interview)

Deborah Iwabuchi translator (Interview)

Suzanne Kamata author (Interview)

Toshiya Kamei translator

Sachiko Kashiwaba author (Interview)

Yuko Katakawa  author (Interview)

Trevor Kew author (Interview)

Yuichi Kimura author (Interview)

Louise George Kittaka author (Interview)

Hart Larrabee translator (interview about poem, interview about story)

Misa Dikengil Lindberg translator (Interview)

Leza Lowitz author (Interview)

Kelly Luce author (Interview)

Thersa Matsuura author (Interview) (Japan Times Article)

Kenji Miyazawa author

Mariko Nagai author (Interview)

Marji Napper author (Interview)

Arie Nashiya author (Interview)

Sarah Ogawa author (Interview)

Debbie Ridpath Ohi author/illustrator (Interview)

Shogo Oketani author (Interview)

Lynne E. Riggs translator

Ryusuke Saito author

Graham Salisbury author (Interview)

John Shelley cover art

Ann Tashi Slater author (Interview)

Alexander O. Smith translator (Interview)

Kaitlin Stainbrook author (Interview)
David Sulz translator (Interview)

Fumio Takano author (Interview)
Holly Thompson foreword, editor (Interview)

Wendy Nelson Tokunaga author (Interview) ("Love Right on the Yesterday" story on YARN)

Catherine Rose Torres author (Interview)

Tak Toyoshima author/illustrator (Interview)

Avery Fischer Udagawa translator (Interview)