Jeffrey Angles
Jeffrey Angles is an award-winning translator and poet. His poetry collection written in Japanese, Watashi no hizukehenkōsen (My International Date Line, Shichōsha, 2016), won one of Japan’s most prestigious literary awards, the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, a rare honor accorded only a few non-native speakers since its inception in 1949. He has translated dozens of Japanese writers, focusing on socially engaged, feminist, or queer writers. These include three volumes by the Japanese-born American poet Hiromi Itō: Killing Kanoko (Action Books, 2009), Wild Grass on the Riverbank (Action Books, 2014), and The Thorn-Puller (Stone Bridge Press, forthcoming in 2022).