Chiori Miyagawa

Chiori Miyagawa is a Japanese- born American playwright, poet, dramaturg, and fiction writer based in New York City. She was born in Nagano, Japan before moving to the United States at an age of 16. She has received many fellowships including the New York Foundation for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship, the Rockefeller Bellagio Residency Fellowship, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship at Harvard University. Her plays have been published by Seagull Books and NoPassport Press in two collections: ''Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays'' and ''America Dreaming and Other Plays''. She was a resident playwright at the New Dramatists and is a playwright-in-residence at Bard College. Provided by Wikipedia