Biography 

Kendall Heitzman translates contemporary Japanese fiction and poetry. His translation of Fujino Kaori’s Nails and Eyes (Pushkin Press, 2023) was awarded the Japan-United States Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. He has published translations of several IWP participants including Nakagami Nori and Shibasaki Tomoka in venues such as Cha and the US-Japan Women’s Journal, and his translations of Furukawa Hideo appear in recent issues of the literary journal Monkey. He is a co-editor of the Cornell Anthology of Contemporary Japanese Poetry, forthcoming from Cornell University Press, for which he is translating work by several young Japanese poets. See his main faculty page for his academic profile and a list of publications. He teaches the Japanese-to-English translation workshop. 

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