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Ellis Avery studied Japanese tea ceremony for five years in New York and Kyoto, and now teaches creative writing at Columbia University. Her work has appeared in The Village Voice, Publishers Weekly, Kyoto Journal, LIT, and Pacific Reader, as well as onstage at New York's Expanded Arts Theater.
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Americans -- Japan -- Kyoto -- Fiction.
Kyoto (Japan) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Japanese tea ceremony -- Fiction.