Asako Serizawa is the author of Inheritors, which won the 2021 PEN/Open Book Award and the 2021 Story Prize Spotlight Award. It was also a Massachusetts Book Award Honors Book for Fiction and longlisted for the 2021 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her work has received two O. Henry Prizes, a Pushcart Prize, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, and a fiction fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.
While at MacDowell, she worked on a novel, the second book in a planned quartet revolving around the legacies of Japanese imperialism and the Second World War. Inheritors was the first book in the quartet.
Portrait by Matthew Modica
