Kyoko Yoshida

Kyoko Yoshida (1969–) is a fiction writer in English, as well as a translator of Japanese contemporary poetry and drama into English and American novels into Japanese. She has two collections of short stories: Disorientalism (Vagabond Press) and Spring Sleepers (Strangers Press). With poet Forrest Gander she translated Kiwao Nomura and Gozo Yoshimasu. She has been the director of Kyoto Writers Residency since 2022. She teaches at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto.