Suzanne Kamata is the author of several books, including two short story collections — The Beautiful One Has Come (Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing, 2011), winner of a Nautilus Silver Award and a Next Generation Indie Book Award, and River of Dolls and Other Stories (Penguin Random House SEA, 2025), winner of a Maxy Award. Her writing has appeared in The Best Asian Short Stories in 2017, 2022 and 2023 and numerous other anthologies. She is also the editor of three anthologies including short fiction — The Broken Bridge: Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan (Stone Bridge Press, 1997); Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs (Beacon Press, 2008); and The Future of Kyoto (Writers in Kyoto, 2025) which she co-edited with Felicity Tillack. She lives in Tokushima Prefecture in Japan with her husband and two cats and is an associate professor in the department of Global Education at Naruto University of Education.