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Patricia Takayama is a writer of fiction. Her first short story collection is titled, The Winter of Melancholy. Her second collection, The Currents of War, is due out later 2023. Both are works of historical fiction based on the lives of real people.
Patricia was raised in California. She is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley and Hastings College of the Law. She lived in Tokyo for three years where she taught English at a business college while she studied the Japanese language. After law school she received a fellowship to continue her language studies at the Inter-University Center in Tokyo.
Updated March 2023