AWARDS/HONORS

-Shortlisted for Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Translation Prize for Akutagawa Ryunosuke’s KAPPA (2024)
-Art Omi Writers Residency (2024)
-Finalist for 6th Annual JLPP International Translation Competition (2022)

TALKS/EVENTS

-On Translating Incarceration Literature: Panel Discussion with Andrew Leong, Junko Kobayashi, and Frank Abe at Tadaima! A Community Virtual Pilgrimage (2023)
-Colloquy: An Evening of Translations from New Directions at Unnameable Books with Patricio Ferrari and Mina Zellman Proctor (2023)
-Los Angeles Issei Poetry Project: Workshop and Walking Tour with Andrew Leong (2023)
-Breaking Into Japanese Literary Translation: A Virtual Workshop for Emerging BIPOC Translators with Kalau Almony (2023)
-ALTA/AAWW Building Our Future: Two-Day Virtual Workshops for Emerging BIPOC Translators (2023)
-ALTA Multilingual Translation Workshop (2023)
-Us & Them: A Writer-Translator Reading Series with Allison Markin Powell (2023)
-AAWW Virtual Event: Natural History + The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu with Jennifer Shyue and Michelle Har Kim (2023)
-Transnational Literature Series at Brookline Booksmith with Allison Markin Powell and Anna Zielinska-Elliott (2023)
-Kappa, Poetry and Sake at Bin Bin Sake with Allison Markin Powell (2023)
-Singapore Unbound: Second Saturday Reading Series with Emma Ramadan and Natasha Wimmer (2023)
-National Centre for Writing: ‘Imposter Syndrome’ with Daniel Hahn and Vineet Lal (2023)
-Japan Foundation New York Book Talk: in conversation with Sachiko Kashiwaba (2022)
-QED Astoria: An Evening of Literary Translation Readings from BIPOC Translators (2022)
-ALTA 45 Bilingual Reading Series: Yuju Wen’s Children in the Middle (2022)
-Pioneer Works Crit Night at Ace Hotel Brooklyn: Q&A with Asuka Goto (2022)
-Nikkei Spotlight Series: “Who Speaks: On Teaching and Translating Japanese from a Language Justice Perspective” (2021)
-Tadaima! A Japanese American Virtual Pilgrimage: “Unlocking Issei Voices in Camp Literature” roundtable with Allison Markin Powell and Frank Abe (2021)
-Hybrid Hallucinations: A Virtual Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Japanese Literary Translation for Heritage Speakers and People of Color with Asa Yoneda, Andrew Leong, Kenji Liu (2021)
-Sant Jordi NYC: panel event with Kenji Liu on translating the Heart Mountain Bungei (2021)