Writer, lawyer, and teacher. Author of Reading with Patrick. Living in Taipei, writing about education, prisons, migration, and the places people come from.
Michelle Kuo went to Helena, Arkansas to teach eighth-grade English. Years later she found her former student in the county jail, and for seven months they read together.
“Impassioned writing and hard-earned wisdom set her book apart. In all of the literature addressing education, race, poverty, and criminal justice, there has been nothing quite like Reading With Patrick.” —Pulitzer Prize-winning James Forman, Jr. and Arthur Evenchik, The Atlantic
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Published in the UK, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. A finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Goddard Riverside Stephan Book Prize for Social Justice, and the Reading Women Award.
