Sawako Nakayasu was born in Japan and has lived
mostly in the US since the age of six. Her books
include Hurry Home Honey (Burning Deck, forthcoming
May 2009), Nothing fictional but the accuracy or
arrangement (she, (Quale Press), and So we have been
given time Or, (Verse Press). Books of translations
include For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut by Takashi
Hiraide (New Directions, 2008) which won the 2009 Best
Translated Book Award, as well as Four From Japan
(Litmus Press, 2006) featuring four contemporary poets,
and To the Vast Blooming Sky (Seeing Eye Books), a
chapbook of poems by the Japanese modernist Chika
Sagawa. She has received the NEA/JUSFC Fellowship
for poetry, and grants from the NEA and PEN for
translating Japanese poetry. Her own poetry has been
translated into Japanese, Swedish, Arabic, Chinese,
and Vietnamese. More information can be found here.