Clara Kumagai

Clara Kumagai is from Canada, Japan, and Ireland. Her fiction and nonfiction for children and adults has been published in The Stinging Fly, the Irish Times, and the Kyoto Journal among others; Catfish Rolling is her debut novel. She is a recipient of a We Need Diverse Books Mentorship and was a finalist for the 2020 Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award. She currently lives and works in Tokyo.

Clara Kumagai's Titles

Songs for Ghosts A Novel

Songs for Ghosts

A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the YearA Booklist Editor’s Choice BookThis genre-bending YA novel follows a boy who finds a century-old diary...


Catfish Rolling A Novel

Catfish Rolling

"Excellent, evocative, and thoughtful with genuine depth" (New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon), Catfish Rolling is a wholly original...