Marie Mutsuki Mockett is a writer who lives in New York. Her fiction, essays and poetry have been published or are forthcoming in Agni, Epoch, South Dakota Review, New Delta Review, North Dakota Quarterly, The Portland Review, LIT, The Texas Review, Primavera, Blue Mesa, Carquinez Poetry Review, The Distillery, Fugue, The Ledge, West Wind Review, The Griffin, and Berkeley Poetry Review.
Marie is represented by Irene Skolnick and Associates. Marie's essay "Letter from a Japanese Crematorium" was published in Agni 65 and cited as distinguished in the 2008 Best American Essays. The essay will be published in the 2009 Norton Anthology of Creative Non-Fiction. Check out Marie's blog to see photos related to the characters, places and objects she describes.
Marie's debut novel, Picking Bones from Ash, will be released by Graywolf Press in Fall 2009. Visit the Picking Bones from Ash site.