Tra­cy Slater is a Jew­ish Amer­i­can writer from Boston, based in her husband’s coun­try of Japan. Her first book, the mixed-mar­riage mem­oir The Good Shu­fu: Find­ing Love, Self, and Home on the Far Side of the World, was named a Barnes & Noble Dis­cov­er Great New Writ­ers selec­tion and one of PopSugar’s best books of 2015. Slater has pub­lished work in the New York Times, the Wall Street Jour­nal, the Wash­ing­ton Post, Time magazine’s Made by His­to­ry, and more. She taught writ­ing for over ten years in Boston-area uni­ver­si­ties and in men’s and women’s pris­ons through­out Mass­a­chu­setts. She is the recip­i­ent of PEN New England’s Friend to Writ­ers Award and holds a PhD in Eng­lish and Amer­i­can lit­er­a­ture from Bran­deis University.