Melissa Uchiyama is a writer and creative writing teacher living in Tokyo. She has written for such publications as <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2017/09/18/a-lunchable-is-not-a-bento-finding-cultural-misappropriation-in-a-lunchbox/">The Washington Post</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.tastecooking.com/author/muchiyama/">Taste</a>, The Japan Times,&nbsp;<a href="https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2015/11/a-conversation-with-deborah-jiang-stein">Literary Mama</a>, Kyoto Journal,&nbsp;and in various anthologies. Follow her on Twitter at @melibelletokyo.

Melissa Uchiyama

Judith Kerr and the Challenges of Holocaust Education

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.
— Dr. Seuss

Young Adult &amp; Children’s Literature

Metaphor Is Everywhere: A Conversation with Maggie Smith

"I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry." — John Cage

Poetry

Melissa Uchiyama is a writer and creative writing teacher living in Tokyo. She has written for such publications as <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2017/09/18/a-lunchable-is-not-a-bento-finding-cultural-misappropriation-in-a-lunchbox/">The Washington Post</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.tastecooking.com/author/muchiyama/">Taste</a>, The Japan Times,&nbsp;<a href="https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2015/11/a-conversation-with-deborah-jiang-stein">Literary Mama</a>, Kyoto Journal,&nbsp;and in various anthologies. Follow her on Twitter at @melibelletokyo.

Melissa Uchiyama

Articles

Judith Kerr and the Challenges of Holocaust Education

Metaphor Is Everywhere: A Conversation with Maggie Smith