Jeremiah Dutch Bio

As an American who has called Japan home for 25 years, Jeremiah Dutch’s writing crosses both cultures. He has written about such diverse topics as horror films and climbing Mt. Fuji. He was born and raised in the northeast of the United States. While still an undergraduate, he wrote for The Haverhill (Massachusetts) Gazette and the Portsmouth (New Hampshire) Herald.

             

In 1997, Jeremiah earned a BA in English from the University of New Hampshire and moved to Japan to teach English the following year. In 2007 he earned a MS.Ed in Education from Temple University and for over seventeen years he has taught at the post-secondary level while continuing to write academic articles, fiction and non-fiction. He currently teaches at Rikkyo University. 

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In 2022 a short piece, Zen Failure in Kyoto won an Honorable Mention in the Seventh Annual Writers in Kyoto Competition. This was excerpted and adapted from his novel-in-progress, Gaijin House: Or Transported Souls in the Motel of Regret.

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Jeremiah lives in Yokohama with his wife and two daughters. When not writing, teaching, or spending time with his family, he enjoys reading, exercise, and following baseball.