Rina Kikuchi is a poetry translator, a professor of literature at Shiga University, Japan, and an adjunct Associate Professor of poetry in the Faculty of Arts and Design at the University of Canberra. Read More Her books of poetry translations include Selected Translations of Sagawa Chika (Shicho-sha, 2023, co-translated with Carol Hayes), Pleasant Troubles (Recent Work Press, 2018, co-translated with Harumi Kawaguchi), and Poet to Poet: Contemporary Women Poets from Japan (Recent Work Press, 2017,
co-edited with Jen Crawford). She is currently working on a bilingual anthology of contemporary Japanese women poets, a co-translation project on Misaki Takako’s poetry, and a research project on Japanese women’s poetry of the Asia Pacific War.