Ann Tashi Slater

Ann Tashi Slater’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in New World Writing, Shenandoah, Gulf Coast, failbetter, and Kyoto Journal, as well as in the YA anthologies American Dragons (HarperCollins) and Tomo (Stone Bridge). Her translation of a novella by Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas was published in Old Rosa (Grove). She is working on a multi-generational novel based on the Tibetan side of her family and set in Darjeeling, and a travel memoir ranging from the byways of Old Delhi to the monasteries of Dharamsala. Future projects include a book chronicling a vanishing Tibet, with photos taken when Ann traveled to Tibet in the mid-eighties, and a novel based on the friendship between her great-grandfather and the 13th Dalai Lama.

Ann was born in Spain, lived for a year in Darjeeling and Kathmandu, and then moved to the States. She holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Princeton and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan. Her travels and work have taken her around the world, to places including France, Spain, Mexico, Cuba, Thailand, and Bali. A longtime resident of Tokyo, she teaches at a Japanese university.