Mariko Tatsumoto Layton

Mariko Tatsumoto Layton (Psych; Law’77) was the first Asian woman attorney admitted to the Colorado Bar. While practicing law, she dreamed of writing books. In 2015 she wrote Ayumi’s Violin, which was the winner of the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Gold Award. The novel for middle schoolers is a multicultural fiction that takes place in California and Japan in 1959.