Rahna Reiko Rizzuto's memoir, Hiroshima in the Morning, is a finalist for the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award, and is the winner of the Grub Street National Book Award in Nonfiction. It is published by the Feminist Press. Her first novel, Why She Left Us, won an American Book Award in 2000. She is also a recipient of the U.S./Japan Creative Artist Fellowship, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including the L.A. Times and Salon. She was Associate Editor of The NuyorAsian Anthology: Asian American Writings About New York City, and teaches in the MFA program for creative writing at Goddard College.