Expertise

Industrial environmental disasters

& politics (mercury poisoning)

Japanese Culture

Changing Careers Diversity/Discrimination

Being an Immigrant

Publications

ADULT HISTORICAL ECO-FICTION: BLOSSOMS ON A POISONED SEA (2024)

MIDDLE GRADE MULTICULTURAL FICTION: AYUMI’S VIOLIN (2015)

YOUNG ADULT FICTION: SWEPT AWAY (2017)(originally titled GUTLESS)

TSUNAMI! YAKUZA! TOKYO! SUMO!

YOUNG ADULT HISTORICAL FICTION: ACCIDENTAL SAMURAI SPY (2016)

YOUNG ADULT FICTION: KIDNAPPED AT THE ICEFALL (2018)

CRAFT BOOK: HOW TO WRITE A MIDDLE GRADE BOOK KIDS WILL LOVE

Speaking Experience

Taught two workshops at

Pikes Peak Writers Conference.

Taught a course at Colorado Mountain College.

Spoken in court.

Biography

Mariko Tatsumoto emigrated from Japan at the age of eight and became the first Asian woman attorney in Colorado before pursuing writing.

Topics of her fiction books range from environment, multicultural, East Asian, historical, action-adventure, diversity, and social justice.

Awards

Paterson Prize for Books

for Young People (2018)