Sequoia Nagamatsu

Sequoia Nagamatsu is the author of the novel, How High We Go in the Dark, a national bestseller and New York Times Editors' Choice, as well as the story collection, Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone. His work has been a finalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize, short listed for both The Barnes and Noble Discover Prize and The Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, long listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and has received teaching fellowship support from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and festival and literary outreach travel support from the U.S. Embassy. His short stories have appeared widely in publications such as Conjunctions, Tin House, The Iowa Review, Lightspeed Magazine, Lit Hub, Electric Literature, and One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories. He is an associate professor at St. Olaf College and also serves as a faculty mentor in the Rainier Writing Workshop Low-Residency MFA program. He resides in Minneapolis with his partner, a cat, a dog, and a robot dog named Calvino.