Beth Kempton is a Japanologist and bestselling author of six non-ficDon books which have
been translated into 28 languages. Her best known book WABI SABI - which explores a
similar mix of aesthetics, wellbeing and culture as MA will - has sold nearly 400,000 copies
worldwide.

Beth has two degrees in Japanese including a Masters in Interpreting and Translation, and considers Japan her second home. Beth has won the Sir Peter Parker Award for Spoken Business Japanese, and has been a contributing editor to a Japanese-English dictionary. She has a vast network of contacts in Japan going back three decades, and carries out all of her own research and interviews.

Beth is also founder of Do What You Love which has delivered life-changing personal development classes to more than 100,000 people, with an addiDonal 40,000+ taking her online writing classes. She is also a qualified yoga teacher and Reiki Master.