Marie Mutsuki Mockett and Claire Vaye Watkins

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Marie Mutsuki Mockett was born to an American father and Japanese mother. Her memoir, Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye, was a finalist for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award. Her most recent book is American Harvest: God, Country and Farming in the Heartland. Her novel The Tree Doctor will be published in 2024.

Claire Vaye Watkins is the author of Battleborn, Gold Fame Citrus, and I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness. She lives in the Mojave Desert.