| Background |
Kyoko YOSHIDA is the author of story collections "Disorientalism" and "Spring Sleepers." She writes fiction in English and translates between English and Japanese. Her latest story “Going to Meet the Dogs” appears in "La mer gelée" in French translation. Her own translation works include "Spectacle & Pigsty: Selected Poems of Kiwao Nomura" (with poet Forrest Gander; Omnidawn 2011, the winner of the University of Rochester's Best Translated Book Award in 2012), "Alice Iris Red Horse" by Gōzō Yoshimasu (with Forrest Gander, Sawako Nakayasu, Jeffrey Angles, Sayuri Okamoto, Jordan A. Y. Smith, and others; New Directions, 2016), "Like a Butterfly, My Nostalgia" by Masataka Matsuda (with playwright Andy Bragen, 2007), "A Proud Son" by Shu Matsui (with A. Bragen, Ohio Northern University, 2013), "The Circle" by Dave Eggers (Hayakawa Publishing, 2014), "Mildred Pierce" by James M. Cain (Genki Shobō, 2021), and "The Sweetest Fruits" by Monique Truong (Shueisha, 2022). She was a fellow at the International Writing Program at University of Iowa in 2005 and a fellow at the Literary Arts Program at Brown University in 2006-07. She is the founding director of Kyoto Writers Residency. |
