Tracy Slater

Tracy Slater is the founder of Four Stories, a global literary series in Boston, Osaka, and Tokyo, for which she was awarded the PEN New England’s Friend to Writers Award in 2008. An essay on her bi-continental life was published in Best Women’s Travel Writing 2008, and her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, The Chronicle Review, The Wall Street Journal online, The Washington Post online, Brain, Child Magazine online, and the New York Times Motherlode blog, among other places. Her first book, the memoir The Good Shufu: Finding Love, Self and Home on the Far Side of the World, was published in 2015 by G.P. Putnam's Sons, a division of Penguin Random House, and was named a Barnes & Nobles Discover Great New Writers Selection, a National Geographic Great New Read, and one of PopSugar's best books of 2015. Before she moved to Japan to marry a traditional Japanese salaryman, Tracy taught writing at various Boston-area universities, as well as literature and gender studies in men's and women's prisons throughout Massachusetts through Boston University's college-behing-bars program. Tracy earned her Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Brandeis University. Learn more at http://www.tracyslater.com/