Writer, Japanese-to-English translator. 📚One to Many and other experiments (ATB I te Kokoru, 2024); Fumio Takano's Swan Knight @LunaPressGlobal 2024. 日英翻訳者、作家。
Very honoured my book made the shortlist for the 2026 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing (fiction category). Find it really hard to believe my paper baby is among such incredible books! Huge thanks to ATB ¦ ITK & everyone who supported me #amwriting
Hot off the press in the latest ANMLY, a new short story by emerging writer Tamaki Senomoto (瀬本 環), transl. me, with multiple translation challenges: Tsugaru dialect, child's voice, set in Neputa Festival. A privilege to work w ANMLY editor Nour Kamel Ibrahim #xl8@Read_WIT
"She’s twenty-something, and she said, ‘Don’t you dare call me auntie,’ so I call her Junko. She took me to Disneyland and the Tokyo Skytree. She used to have a boyfriend, and he lived with her..."
—Sharni Wilson translates Tamaki Senomoto
https://t.co/AXjaCbB6je
"There was a man playing a Tsugaru shamisen and I’d never heard that before. It was completely different to the electric guitar Dad played when he’d been drinking: it gave me a tingle down the spine, like cracking open the door of a big old abandoned house."
Happy to have a micropoem, 'Mother', in the latest lovely issue of Password: A Journal of Very Short Poetry, out today! Feel surrounded by gorgeous words https://t.co/TLg0w7dbeC #amwriting#micropoetry#haiku
Happy New Year of the Horse! This is my end-of-year publishing roundup for 2025. I branched out and tried some completely new things, including collaborations with friends #2025roundup#writingroundup#xl8 1/10
Forthcoming in 2026, a short story collaboration (the first I’ve done), a short story translation in a German lit mag, and I'm currently translating another book on yokai art 9/10
V happy (also v surprised) to be on list with these writers, Renee Liang, Michael Botur, Shelley Burne-Field, Tim Saunders, Lee Hana, Cristin Leach, Jessica le Bas, Lorraine Carmody, Kirstie McKinnon! (KM Sparkling Prose shortlist, winners announced next month) #amwriting