Tina deBellegarde’s debut novel, Winter Witness, is nominated for the 2020 Agatha Award for Best First Novel. Her story “Tokyo Stranger” appears alongside celebrated authors in the Mystery Writers of America anthology When a Stranger Comes to Town. Tina lives in New York with her husband Denis where they harvest shiitake mushrooms and tend to their beehives. She travels to Japan regularly to visit her son Alessandro. Visit her website.

Read Tina’s reviews:

Life Ceremony, by Sayaka Murata (transl. Takemori)

Spirit of Shizen: Japan’s Nature Through its 72 Seasons

The Widow, The Priest and The Octopus Hunter, by Amy Chavez

Kanazawa, by David Joiner

Heaven, by Mieko Kawakami

Where the Wild Ladies Are, by Aoko Matsuda

Kokoro, by Natsume Sōseki

First Person Singular, by Haruki Murakami

Earthlings, by Sayaka Murata

Things Remembered, Things Forgotten by Kyoko Nakajima

The Books on Asia Podcast interviewed Tina in Episode 12: “The Art of the Short Story.”