Kyoko Mori was born in Kobe, Japan, in 1957 and moved to the United States in 1977, where she earned a B.A. from Rockford College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in English/Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Mori teaches in the MFA creative writing program at George Mason University.

She is the author of six books: Shizuko's Daughter; One Bird; Stone Field, True Arrow (novels); Fallout (poetry), The Dream of Water (memoir); and Polite Lies: On Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures (creative nonfiction).

Her essay "Yarn" appeared in The Best American Essays, 2004. Polite Lies was short-listed for PEN's Martha Albrand Award. Her awards also include The Best Novel of the Year from the Wisconsin Council of Writers for Shizuko's Daughter and One Bird, the editor's choice from The Missouri Review for the poem "Fallout."

STONE FIELD, TRUE ARROW: A Novel (Holt/Metropolitan Books, 2000; Picador USA, 2001).
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POLITE LIES: Essays on Being a Woman Caught Between Cultures (Henry Holt, 1998; Fawcett, 1999).
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ONE BIRD: A Novel (Henry Holt/Edge Books, 1996; Fawcett, 1997).
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THE DREAM OF WATER: A Memoir (Henry Holt, 1995; Ballantine, 1996).
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SHIZUKO'S DAUGHTER: A Novel (Henry Holt/Edge Books, 1993; Fawcett, 1994).
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