Rahna Reiko Rizzuto was born in Hawaii and grew up in a
small “cow town” on the Big Island. Her first novel, Why She
Left Us, won an American Book Award in 2000. It also
received a Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award
Honorable Mention, and was named one of the Best Books
of 1999 by the Honolulu Advertiser.
In 2001, Rizzuto was awarded a US/Japan Creative Artist
Fellowship, funded by the National Endowment for the
Arts. She spent eight months living in Hiroshima, Japan to
research her second and third novels. While she was there,
she also began working on a book that is was inspired by her
experience of living at the original Ground Zero and
interviewing the atomic bomb survivors as the September
11th attacks unfolded within sight of her Brooklyn-based
family. This book, Hiroshima in the Morning, is forthcoming.
Rizzuto is a faculty member at Goddard College in Vermont,
where she teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing program.
She is an active member of the Asian American Writers
Workshop, where she has taught workshops, judged
awards, and generally tried to help out. She is also the
Associate Editor of The NuyorAsian Anthology: Asian
American Writings About New York City. Her essays and
short stories continue to appear in anthologies, journals and
newspapers.
Rahna Reiko Rizzuto is half-Japanese/half-Caucasian. She
lives in Brooklyn.
copyright 2007, rahna reiko rizzuto
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