Sara Backer
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About the Author
Sara Backer was the first American and the first woman to serve as visiting professor of English at Japan’s Shizuoka University. An early draft of American Fuji was named a finalist in the James Jones First Novel Competition, and a play she wrote as a Djerassi artist in residence was chosen for performance at the Edward Albee Theatre Conference in June 2000. A published poet and short-story writer, Backer lives in New Hampshire.
