{"id":368,"date":"2023-05-10T23:54:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T23:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/?page_id=368"},"modified":"2023-05-11T14:25:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T14:25:55","slug":"sequoia-nagamatsu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/sequoia-nagamatsu\/","title":{"rendered":"Sequoia Nagamatsu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sequoia Nagamatsu is our ArmadilloCon 2023 Guest of Honor! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Writer, professor and editor <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sequoianagamatsu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sequoia Nagamatsu<\/a> is the author of the national bestselling novel <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.com\/products\/how-high-we-go-in-the-dark-sequoia-nagamatsu?variant=40352361578530\" target=\"_blank\">How High We Go in the Dark<\/a> (HarperCollins, 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>How High We Go in the Dark<\/em> was a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/24\/books\/review\/8-new-books-we-recommend-this-week.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times Book Review editor&#8217;s Choice Selection<\/a>. &#8220;&#8216;If you\u2019re a short-story lover \u2014 as I am \u2014 you\u2019ll be impressed with Nagamatsu\u2019s meticulous craft,&#8217; Lincoln Michel writes in his review&#8221; (&#8220;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/18\/books\/review\/sequoia-nagamatsu-how-high-we-go-in-the-dark.html\" target=\"_blank\">In a Virus-Stricken Future, Humanity Endures Amid the Grief<\/a>&#8220;).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It was named as one of just two finalists for the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ursulakleguin.com\/prize22#:~:text=The%20jury%20also%20named%20two,Valente.\" target=\"_blank\">2022 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction<\/a>. The jury stated, \u201cAn ingenious suite of interlocking stories depicting grief, bereavement and love via the progress of an all-too-plausible pandemic and its decades-long aftermath. This brave, inventive novel is a testament to the human spirit and the resilience of hope in the face of tragedy. In connection, Sequoia Nagamatsu&#8217;s characters find redemption, meaning and a future.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It was a<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bookweb.org\/news\/february-2022-indie-next-list-preview-1627199\" target=\"_blank\"> February 2022 Indie Next Pick<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It was the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/audacity.substack.com\/p\/the-audacious-round-up-de9\" target=\"_blank\">March 2022 pick for Roxane Gay&#8217;s Audacious Book Club<\/a>! <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It was <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.waterstones.com\/category\/cultural-highlights\/book-awards\/the-waterstones-debut-fiction-prize\" target=\"_blank\">shortlisted for the 2022 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize<\/a> and the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/blog\/discover-prize-shortlist-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\">2022 Barnes and Noble Discover Prize<\/a>. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It was <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ala.org\/rusa\/sites\/ala.org.rusa\/files\/content\/awards\/carnegie\/HOWHIGHWEGOINTHEDARK_LONGLIST.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">longlisted for the 2023 <\/a><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/locusmag.com\/2022\/10\/2023-andrew-carnegie-medals-longlist\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction<\/a> and the<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/pen.org\/literary-awards\/2023-pen-america-longlists\/\" target=\"_blank\"> 2023 PEN\/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"685\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/NAGAMATSU-How-High-We-Go-in-the-Dark.jpg?resize=685%2C1000&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/NAGAMATSU-How-High-We-Go-in-the-Dark.jpg?w=685&amp;ssl=1 685w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/NAGAMATSU-How-High-We-Go-in-the-Dark.jpg?resize=206%2C300&amp;ssl=1 206w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/NAGAMATSU-Where-We-Go.jpg?resize=452%2C697&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-363\" width=\"452\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/NAGAMATSU-Where-We-Go.jpg?resize=663%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 663w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/NAGAMATSU-Where-We-Go.jpg?resize=194%2C300&amp;ssl=1 194w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/NAGAMATSU-Where-We-Go.jpg?resize=768%2C1186&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/NAGAMATSU-Where-We-Go.jpg?resize=994%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 994w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/NAGAMATSU-Where-We-Go.jpg?resize=1326%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1326w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/NAGAMATSU-Where-We-Go.jpg?resize=1320%2C2039&amp;ssl=1 1320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/NAGAMATSU-Where-We-Go.jpg?w=1651&amp;ssl=1 1651w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Sequoia Nagamatsu&#8217;s previous book is the Japanese folklore and pop culture inspired story story collection, <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blacklawrencepress.com\/books\/where-we-go-when-all-we-were-is-gone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;(Black Lawrence Press, 2016).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These stories are wonderfully strange, something we think ArmadilloCon fans will appreciate! They include &#8220;The Return to Monsterland,&#8221;&nbsp;the story of a biologist whose wife calls him as she is about to die because Godzilla has grabbed the train car she is in.  &#8220;You should be here; he&#8217;s simply magnificent,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"791\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Godzilla_1954.jpg?resize=1024%2C791&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Godzilla_1954.jpg?resize=1024%2C791&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Godzilla_1954.jpg?resize=300%2C232&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Godzilla_1954.jpg?resize=768%2C594&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Godzilla_1954.jpg?resize=1536%2C1187&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Godzilla_1954.jpg?resize=1320%2C1020&amp;ssl=1 1320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Godzilla_1954.jpg?w=1832&amp;ssl=1 1832w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/NAGAMATSU-lightspeed-magazine-january-2015.jpg?resize=330%2C495&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-365\" width=\"330\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/NAGAMATSU-lightspeed-magazine-january-2015.jpg?w=353&amp;ssl=1 353w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/NAGAMATSU-lightspeed-magazine-january-2015.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Sequoia has published a number of short stories. \u201cHeadwater LLC\u201d appeared in the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lightspeedmagazine.com\/category\/issues\/page\/11\/\" target=\"_blank\">January 2015 issue of Lightspeed<\/a>, along with an <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lightspeedmagazine.com\/nonfiction\/author-spotlight-sequoia-nagamatsu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Author Spotlight piece<\/a>. Other short works have appeared in publications such as <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conjunctions.com\/print\/archive\/conjunctions64\" target=\"_blank\">Conjunctions<\/a> (&#8220;The Return to Monsterland&#8221;), <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thesouthernreview.org\/issues\/detail\/Spring-2020\/252\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Southern Review<\/a> (&#8220;Elegy Hotel&#8221;), <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zyzzyva.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ZYZZYVA<\/a> (&#8220;Rokurokubi&#8221;), <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/tinhouse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tin House<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/iowareview.org\/issue\/volume-50-issue-2-fall-2020\" target=\"_blank\">Iowa Review<\/a> (&#8220;Grave Friends&#8221;), and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/One-World-global-anthology-stories\/dp\/1906523134\" target=\"_blank\">One World: A Global Anthology of Short Stories<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has been listed as notable in Best American Non-Required Reading and the Best Horror of the Year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/NAGAMATSU-One-World.jpg?resize=353%2C494&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-366\" width=\"353\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/NAGAMATSU-One-World.jpg?resize=730%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 730w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/NAGAMATSU-One-World.jpg?resize=214%2C300&amp;ssl=1 214w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/NAGAMATSU-One-World.jpg?resize=768%2C1078&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/NAGAMATSU-One-World.jpg?w=1824&amp;ssl=1 1824w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>For ten years, Sequoia co-edited Pyschopomp Magazine with Cole Bucciaglia. Psychpomp championed genre pushing and experimental work.&nbsp;(The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/psychopompmag.com\/archive\/\" target=\"_blank\">Psychopomp archives<\/a> are still available!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was educated at Grinnell College (BA) and Southern Illinois University-Carbondale (MFA), and he teaches creative writing at Saint Olaf College and the Rainier Writing Workshop Low-Residency MFA program. He is originally from O\u2019ahu, Hawai\u02bbi and the San Francisco Bay Area and currently lives in Minneapolis with his wife, the writer <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colebn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cole Nagamatsu<\/a>, their cat Kalahira, their real dog Fenris, and a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/us.aibo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sony Aibo robot dog<\/a> named Calvino. He is at work on two other novels. His next novel, Girl Zero, is forthcoming from William Morrow\/HarperCollins and Bloomsbury UK in 2024.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sequoia Nagamatsu is our ArmadilloCon 2023 Guest of Honor! Writer, professor and editor Sequoia Nagamatsu is the author of the national bestselling novel How High We Go in the Dark (HarperCollins, 2022). Sequoia Nagamatsu&#8217;s previous book is the Japanese folklore and pop culture inspired story story collection, Where We Go When All We Were Is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-368","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/368\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d45\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}