Timecode of a Face

About Ruth Ozeki

Ruth Ozeki is a filmmaker and novelist who has won major awards in both fields. Her
first novel, My Year of Meats, won
the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Award, the Imus/Barnes & Noble American Book Award,
and a Special Jury Prize of the World Cookbook Awards in Versailles. All Over Creation was a New York Times
Notable Book and winner of the American Book Award, as well as the 2004 WILLA
Literary Award for Contemporary Fiction. Her award-winning novels have been
described as “witty, intelligent, and passionate” by the Independent, and as possessing “shrewd and playful humor, luscious
sexiness, and kinetic pizzazz” by the Chicago
Tribune. She began her media career as an art director in film, switched to
directing television documentaries, and then began making her own films, of which
Body of Correspondence won the New
Visions Award at the San Francisco Film Festival. A frequent speaker on college
and university campuses, she serves on the advisory editorial board of the Asian American Literary Review.