Mary Yukari Waters

Mary Yukari Waters is half Japanese and half Irish-American. Born 1965, in Kyoto, Japan; father a physicist. Education: University of California, Santa Barbara, B.S. (economics); University of California, Irvine, M.F.A.

The recipient of an O. Henry award, a Pushcart Prize, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, she has been published in The Best American Short Stories 2002 and 2003, The Pushcart Book of Short Stories: The Best Stories from a Quarter-Century of the Pushcart Prize, and Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope 2 anthology. She earned her MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and lives in Los Angeles.

• The Favorites 2010
• The Laws of Evening: Stories 2003