Tricia Vita, a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, studied Japanese in Kyoto and at Connecticut College. Her book-length collection of stories by Taruho Inagaki (Sun & Moon Press, 1998) was the first such translation of his work. Her own storybook, The Ten-Woman Bicycle, was first published in a Dutch translation by Ria van Hengel, and the original English text was later brought out by Sheba Feminist Publishers in England and excerpted in Ms.