About Avery

Avery Fischer Udagawa / Photo by Nutdanai Pongnikarn

Avery Fischer Udagawa grew up in Kansas and studied English and Asian Studies at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. She holds an MA in Advanced Japanese Studies from The University of Sheffield. She has studied at Nanzan University, Nagoya, on a Fulbright Fellowship, and at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama. She writes, translates, and works in international education near Bangkok, where she lives with her bicultural family. She serves as Global Translator Coordinator in the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.

Temple Alley Summer by Sachiko Kashiwaba, translated from Japanese by Avery, will be published in paperback on May 28, 2024. Preorder today!

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