about

Kathleen Burkinshaw is an award winning Japanese American author, the daughter of a Hiroshima survivor and resides in Charlotte, NC. She’s a wife, mom, and has a new dog who thinks she is a ninja escape artist! In 2019 and 2025, she spoke about her mother’s experience in Hiroshima at the United Nations (NYC) and with her daughter on UN virtual events for the 75th and 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing. In 2021, she had the honor of speaking at a Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum virtual event.

Kathleen has presented to middle/high schools around the world for the past 13 years. She has served on the Advisory Council at the International Center for Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma and on the Steering Committee for the Global Alliance Sustainable Peace & Prosperity for All, Hiroshima Japan.

Kathleen‘s blog, Creating Through the Pain, shares more information about her writing and personal life, as well as her personal experience living with Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy, a neurological chronic pain disease that is linked to her mother’s exposure to radiation from the atomic bombing.