Rebecca Copeland is a writer of fiction and literary criticism and a translator of Japanese literature. Her stories travel between Japan and the American South and touch on questions of identity, belonging, and self-discovery. Her translation of Kirino Natsuo's The Goddess Chronicle won the PEN Translates Award, English PEN in 2013, and the Japan-US Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature, 2014-2015. After earning a PhD in Japanese literature at Columbia University, Copeland is now a professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
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American translator Ruth Bennett peels back layers of haunting secrets in a revered kimono dynasty. “I jostled her shoulder and noticed when I did that her skin was cold to the touch, her entire torso was covered in tattoos of kimono motifs.” T... SEE MORE