Gail Tsukiyama is an American novelist from San Francisco, California, USA. Early life Tsukiyama was born in San Francisco, to a Japanese father and a Chinese mother. She attended San Francisco State University, where she received both her Bachelor of Arts Degree and a Master of Arts Degree in English with an emphasis in creative writing. Career Tsukiyama works as a part-time lecturer for San Francisco State University and a freelance book-reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle. Tsukiyama is an alumna of the Ragdale Foundation. She lives in El Cerrito, California. Works Tsukiyama was one of nine fiction authors to appear during the first Library of Congress National Book Festival. Her works include Women of the Silk (1991), The Samurai’s Garden (1995), Night of Many Dreams (1998), The Language of Threads (1999), Dreaming Water (2002), The Street of a Thousand Blossoms (2007), A Hundred Flowers (2012), and The Color of Air (2020). References External links Literati.net: official Gail Tsukiyama website Bookreporter.com: Gail Tsukiyama profile US Library of Congress: 2001 National Book Festival webcast Facebook page Living people American women novelists American literary critics Women literary critics American novelists of Asian descent American women writers of Asian descent American women writers of Chinese descent American writers of Japanese descent San Francisco Chronicle people San Francisco State University alumni San Francisco State University faculty People from El Cerrito, California Writers from San Francisco 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award winners Novelists from California American women non-fiction writers 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers Year of birth missing (living people) American novelists of Chinese descent American women critics