Rachel Kondo is an American writer and television supervising producer. Her short story "Girl of Few Seasons" was a finalist for the

O. Henry Award The O. Henry Award is an annual American award given to short stories of exceptional merit. The award is named after the American short-story writer O. Henry. The ''PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories'' is an annual collection of the year's twenty best ...

. Alongside her husband Justin Marks, she is also a supervising producer for the re-adaptation of ''

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''.

Early life and career

Kondo is of Japanese descent. She grew up in

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, and received a $1,000 scholarship as a senior in high school. Kondo pursued her Master of Fine Arts at the

Michener Center for Writers The Michener Center for Writers is an interdisciplinary Masters of Fine Arts program in fiction, poetry, playwriting, and screenwriting at the University of Texas at Austin. It is widely regarded as one of the top creative writing programs in the wo ...

at the

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. During her time there, she was a finalist for the 2014 Keene Prize for Literature and received part of the $50,000 runner-up prize. In 2017, her husband Justin Marks chose her to work as a supervising producer for the re-adaptation of ''

''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kondo, Rachel Living people Writers from Hawaii Hawaii people of Japanese descent American women short story writers American women writers of Asian descent University of California, Los Angeles alumni University of Texas at Austin alumni American writers of Japanese descent American short story writers of Asian descent Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women O. Henry Award winners