Kaori Fujino, a lifelong resident of Kyoto, is best known for fiction that reimagines tropes from horror, science fiction, Hollywood thrillers, urban legends, fairy tales, and museum culture. She holds an MA in aesthetics and art from Doshisha University. In 2013, Fujino was awarded the Akutagawa Prize, Japan’s most prominent literary prize, for Nails and Eyes. Read More In the fall of 2017, she was in residence at the University of Iowa’s prestigious International Writing Program. In 2023, Nails and Eyes, translated by Kendall Heitzman, was published by Pushkin Press. Her stories have appeared in English translation in Granta, Monkey, the US-Japan Women’s Journal, and other publications.