In 1996, Hirahara quit her job, took a fellowship for creative writing with the Milton Center at Newman University in Wichita, Kansas and committed to working full-time as a creative writer. After three years, she was asked to come back as an editor at the Rafu Shimpo and began writing nonfiction books in the 1990s. Three years later, she began working at a boutique public relations firm to allow more time for creative writing and taking classes at the UCLA extension. Īfter a brief job as an editorial assistant, Hirahara began working at the Rafu Shimpo newspaper in 1984 as writer about the city of Los Angeles. After her 1983 graduation, she furthered her education at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Tokyo. She received her bachelor's degree from Stanford University in international relations with a focus on Africa and spent a summer during her studies volunteering with the YWCA in Ghana, West Africa. She began writing when she was in elementary school in Altadena, California. Naomi Hirahara was born in 1962 in Pasadena, California to Japanese parents, both of whom were survivors of the Hiroshima bombing. She is currently a writer of both fiction and non-fiction works and the Edgar Award-winning Mas Arai mystery series. She edited the largest Japanese-American daily newspaper, The Rafu Shimpo for several years. Naomi Hirahara ( Japanese: 平原 直美, born 1962) is an American writer and journalist. Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies
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