About Avery

Avery Fischer Udagawa grew up in Kansas and studied English and Asian Studies at
St. Olaf College in Minnesota. She holds an M.A. 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 currently parents, writes, and translates in her bicultural (Japanese-American) family living north of Bangkok.

Avery writes the column Four Worlds at Literary Mama and contributes to the SCBWI Tokyo Translation Group blog. She will present at the Asian Festival of Children’s Content 2012 in Singapore (May 26-29) and at SCBWI Tokyo Translation Day 2012 in Yokohama (June 16). Email her at avery@averyfischerudagawa.com