Derek J. McPhee

Derek McPhee was born and raised in Canada but moved to Japan in 2007 for a change of pace. Inspired by the relationships between Japanese people and foreigners in Japan, he started working on a project called Outsiders. This project took a fateful turn of events when the March 11th earthquake hit the Tohoku Region of Japan. He switched gears and wrote The Smallest, Narrowest Places, a book of short stories about the lives of foreign people, living in Japan, before, during, and after the Great East Japan Earthquake.

Infinitely skeptical about the digital book publication concept, he dove head first into it so that he could see what it was like. The Smallest, Narrowest Places was published by Createspace and Amazon.com. He has already begun work on his second novel: The Tanuki and the Kitsune, a surrealistic hunt for a murderer through the streets of Tokyo city.

Derek lives in a small beach community, just outside of Tokyo, with his wife, cat, and dog.

Twitter: @DerekMcPhee
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Website: www.derekmcphee.com