Karen Hill Anton is the author of the widely acclaimed memoir The View From Breast Pocket Mountain, Grand Prize Winner of the 2022 Memoir Prize for Books, 2021 B.R.A.G Medallion, and the 2020 SPR Book Awards Gold Prize. Karen wrote the columns “Crossing Cultures” for The Japan Times and “Another Look” for Chunichi Shimbun for fifteen years. A cross-cultural competence consultant and coach, she lectures internationally on her experience of cross-cultural adaptation and raising four bilingual, bicultural children. Among other collections, her writing appears in A Passion for Japan (BlueSky Publishing), The Broken Bridge: Fiction from Expatriates in Literary Japan (Stone Bridge Press), and The Meaning of Michelle (St. Martin’s Press). Originally from New York City, she’s achieved second-degree mastery in Japanese calligraphy, and has lived with her husband William Anton in rural Shizuoka province, Japan, since 1975.