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Yuko K. Grover, a graduate of the Columbia University, received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Comparative Literature (English & Japanese) and has worked extensively in the language related fields, both in Japan and the United States. Before moving to NYC in 1992, she taught English grammar at American Language School in Chiba & Tokyo; she also worked as an interpreter and translator for Kajima Corporation and Asahi Glass Engineering, coordinating communication among Japanese engineers, American & Canadian designers, and English-speaking foreign workers.
While living in New York City with her husband, psychotherapist and author Sean Grover, and raising their two daughters, Yuko continued to pursue her passion for language and its communication as her vocation. She worked as a freelance-writer for a Tokyo-based radio program called “From New York Today” (Bay FM) averaging three articles a week. She also wrote bi-weekly reports on NYC trends for Felissimo New York and its parent company in Japan, while assisting editorial and copy duties on the company’s catalogues.
As a bilingual writer, she has published many articles in English for World Tribune, a weekly Buddhist newspaper circulated nationally. Yuko is also working on her first novel, Silent Stone, which highlights the struggles of a young woman and her family living in post-war Japan, trying to invent/ reinvent their lives, navigating through the constant changes and confusion of Japanese society, deeply affected by the devastating aftermath of War.