{{short description|American poet}} {{infobox writer |name=Yuko Taniguchi |birth_place=Yokohama, Japan |occupation={{flatlist| *Poet *novelist }} |nationality=Japanese American |education=College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University<br>University of Minnesota (MFA) }} '''Yuko Taniguchi''' (born in Yokohama, Japan) is a Japanese American poet and novelist.
==Life== She graduated from the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University and from the University of Minnesota with a Master of Fine Arts degree.
She teaches at the University of Minnesota.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.r.umn.edu/research/cli/people/yuko-taniguchi/index.htm |title=Yuko Taniguchi, M.F.A. : Faculty & Staff : Center for Learning Innovation (CLI) : Research : University of Minnesota | Rochester |access-date=October 20, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100609204646/http://www.r.umn.edu/research/cli/people/yuko-taniguchi/index.htm |archive-date=June 9, 2010 }}</ref>
==Awards== * 2008 American Book Award (The Before Columbus Foundation) * Finalist, The Dayton Literary Peace Prize<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.csbsju.edu/csbalum/news/2008/08/Yuko_taniguchi.htm |title=CSB Alumnae & Friends – CSB/SJU |website=www.csbsju.edu |access-date=22 May 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120730235449/http://www.csbsju.edu/csbalum/news/2008/08/Yuko_taniguchi.htm |archive-date=30 July 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> * Finalist, 11th Annual Asian American Literary Awards * 2008 Kiriyama Prize Notable Book * 15th Annual Skipping Stones Honor Awards * Finalist, Literary Fiction category for ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Awards<ref>{{cite web |title=The Ocean in the Closet is a 2007 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award finalist |url=https://www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books/the-ocean-in-the-closet/ |publisher=Foreword Reviews |access-date=30 October 2018 |language=en}}</ref> * Honorable Mention, The 2007 Gustayus Myers Center Outstanding Book Awards Advancing Human Rights
==Works==
===Poetry=== * {{cite book| title=Foreign Wife Elegy| publisher=Coffee House Press | year=2004| url=https://archive.org/details/foreignwifeelegy00tani| url-access=registration| quote=Yuko Taniguchi.| isbn= 978-1-56689-148-6 }}
===Novels=== * {{cite book| title=The Ocean in the Closet| publisher=Coffee House Press| year=2007| isbn=978-1-56689-194-3 }}
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==External links== *[http://www.yukotaniguchi.com/ "Author's website"] *[http://www.r.umn.edu/academics-research/cli/faculty-staff/faculty/writing/yuko-taniguchi/ "University of Minnesota, Rochester Faculty page]
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