She is also a two-time winner of the All Nippon Airways/Wingspan Fiction Contest, winner of the Paris Book Festival, and winner of a SCBWI Magazine Merit Award.Rebecca Otowa may have lived in the Japanese countryside for 40 years but this gifted artist, author, and gardener remains a deep observer of ordinary life in a country village that has lost all of its shops and much of its younger population since she arrived. Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize five times, and received a Special Mention in 2006. Her short stories, essays, articles and book reviews have appeared in over 100 publications including Real Simple, Brain, Child, Cicada, and The Japan Times. She is most recently from Lexington, South Carolina, and now lives in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan with her husband and two children. Suzanne Kamata was born and raised in Grand Haven, Michigan.
Kamata’s adventures with her teen–who happens to be deaf, with cerebral palsy, and in a wheelchair–through subterranean Tennessee, to the islands of Japan, and to the top of the Eiffel Tower ultimately lead to a daughter’s increasing independence, a mother letting go of expectations, and advocacy for travel which prohibits discrimination. SQUEAKY WHEELS: Travels with my Daughter by Train, Plane, Metro, Tuk-tuk and Wheelchairis a mother-daughter travel memoir woven with comparative culture and accessibility awareness. We’ll be meeting in the Ala Moana Hotel Lobby/Starbucks (beverages of all kinds, including wine and beer, are available). Kirsten first met Lilia and Suzanne in Paris for the SCBWI Europolitan Conference in 2013 and is excited to introduce you to them both! Suzanne and her daughter, Lilia will be on Oahu for Pacific Rim International Conference on Disability and Diversity and offered to get together to talk story about her new book, SQUEAKY WHEELS (Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing, 9781948018449, 212pp., release date March 25, 2019).
Kidlit Pau Hana & Talk Story w/ Suzanne Kamata, Author
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