Kenny Fries is a Creative Arts Fellow of the Japan/US Friendship Commission and the National Endowment of the Arts, and a Fulbright Scholar to Japan. He teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Goddard College, and is the author of the memoir In the Province of the Gods.
‘Did Hearn feel comfortable in Japan because being a foreigner overshadowed his physical difference?’
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