About Pacific Rim Voices: Staff


		Peter Coughlan Peter Coughlan, Ph.D., is the executive director of Pacific Rim Voices and administrator of the Kiriyama Prize. He believes that books can play a vital role in conveying knowledge and in moving hearts and minds. He is also motivated in his work for PRV, however, by a belief in the importance of literacy and reading in developing the informed and critical judgment necessary for the health of all societies in the contemporary world.

		Jeannine Cuevas-Stronach Jeannine Cuevas-Stronach, Kiriyama Prize manager, has been involved with the development of all aspects of the award since its inception in 1996. She has brought to bear on her work as Prize manager her extensive experience as a bookseller and as marketing manager of several corporate newsletters—as well as a great love of books and curiosity about other places and cultures. She is also a regular contributor to PaperTigers book reviews.

		Aline Pereira Her love of books and years of experience working as a project manager has led Aline Pereira to join Pacific Rim Voices in 2004, as PaperTigers.org managing editor. Aline loves children's books about places far and near, and is known to stay up late reading them long after her young daughter is sound asleep.

		Stephanie Lawyer Stephanie Lawyer, WaterBridge Review editor, grew up in Mexico and the USA and was educated in Britain. She has worked as a book editor in London, Boston, and Hong Kong, where she also ran Hong Kong’s first literary agency. She has twice been a fiction judge for the Kiriyama Prize, and has remained involved with Pacific Rim Voices ever since. She also works as a website editor in Seattle, Washington.

		Gail Tsukiyama Gail Tsukiyama, editor of WaterBridge Review's book section, is the author of six novels, including Women of the Silk, The Samurai's Garden and her latest book, Street of a Thousand Blossoms . Tsukiyama has served as a judge for the Kiriyama Prize on three separate occasions including as chair of the 2006 fiction panel and has been a long-time friend of the Kiriyama Prize.

		Anne Roughton Anne Roughton worked for many years at the San Francisco Public Library, and is now retired. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, the daughter of a navel officer, she has traveled to many Pacific Rim countries. Her busy life includes leading architecture tours at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum. Twice a nonfiction judge for the Kiriyama Prize, she now writes the "Around the Rim" column for WaterBridge Review.

		Laura Atkins Laura Atkins worked for almost a decade in the children's publishing industry in the United States, at Children's book Press in San Francisco and at Lee & Low Books in New York. She completed her MA at University of Surrey Roehampton in London, where she is now working on a PhD focusing on multicultural publishing in the UK and US. She is regular contributor and consultant to PaperTigers.org.