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About
Hiromitsu Koiso (小磯洋光) is a Japanese literary translator and poet, based in Tokyo. He has completed an MA in Literary Translation and an MA in Creative Writing (Poetry), both at the University of East Anglia in the UK. Writing in both English and Japanese, his poems have been published in journals such as POETRY (US) and Gendaishitecho (Japan). He has translated works by Anne Carson, Teju Cole, Grayson Perry, and Ocean Vuong into Japanese. Koiso was co-guest editor for the UK’s literary magazine Wasafiri issue 102, which featured Japanese literature. He was commissioned by the UK’s Poetry Society to write a poem for the Japan Institute of Portland Japanese Garden’s International Peace Symposia. Most recently, he received the inaugural Toshizo Watanabe Democracy Fellowship from the Japanese American National Museum. He is currently translating Bryan Washington’s novel Memorial into Japanese.