Noriko Nakada lives with her man, daughter, and dog in Los Angeles, California.  She teaches at Emerson Middle School and will continue to do so even after Oprah plugs her early childhood memoir, Through Eyes Like Mine, and her middle school follow-up, Overdue Apologies.

She completed her mfa at Antioch University Los Angeles in 2005 and continues to write, blog, tweet, and facebook about life, food, education, and sports.

Her works in progress include a middle grades novel, New LA Life, a screenplay, Oh, Christmas Tree, and Ricepaper Superheroes, a historical novel about a Japanese American family during World War II.

Overdue Apologies, her middle school memoir, is now available @ Powell's and  Amazon. 

She is represented by Judy Heiblum at Sterling Lord Literistic and is the author of Through Eyes Like Mine available @ Powell's, and Amazon and the follow-up memoir, Overdue Apologies also available @ Powell's and Amazon.