Kathryn Tanquary is an American

juvenile fiction Young adult fiction (YA) is a category of fiction written for readers from 12 to 18 years of age. While the genre is primarily targeted at adolescents, approximately half of YA readers are adults. The subject matter and genres of YA correlate ...

author who lives and works in

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. She is from

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, and currently works as an editor for Edelman Japan. Tanquary studied creative writing at Knox College, where she graduated from in 2010. At Knox College, she was listed as a distinguished student on the Dean's List and the President's Circle. After attaining her degree, Tanquary taught English as a Foreign Language to middle school students in the

Gunma Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Gunma Prefecture has a population of 1,937,626 (1 October 2019) and has a geographic area of 6,362 km2 (2,456 sq mi). Gunma Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture and Fukushima ...

of Japan. In college, Tanquary wrote several short stories for adults. She has always been interested in Japanese folklore, which stimulated the concept for her debut novel, a juvenile fiction book titled ''

The Night Parade ''The Night Parade'' (2016) is a juvenile fiction debut novel by Kathryn Tanquary, a middle-grade author and teacher of English as a foreign language in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. Tanquary’s ''The Night Parade'' is reminiscent of the 2001 Japanes ...

'', which won the 2016 Freeman Book Award for Young Adult/Middle School Literature. Soon after its January 2016 release, the author stated that she plans to release a new middle-grade series as well as an unrelated

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for adults. She has written columns for ''Writer’s Digest'' and has been featured in several other publications. She is also an advocate for representation of diversity in juvenile and

teen fiction Adolescence () is a transitional stage of physical and psychological development that generally occurs during the period from puberty to adulthood (typically corresponding to the age of majority). Adolescence is usually associated with the te ...

. Tanquary is represented by Thao Le of the Sandra Dijkstra Agency, and her debut novel was published through

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References

External links

Dinosaur Lace: The blog of Kathryn Tanquary, author

Kathryn Tanquary on Twitter

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tanquary, Kathryn Living people American women children's writers American children's writers American women novelists Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women