Leanne Ogasawara has worked as a translator from Japanese for more than twenty years. Her reviews have appeared in the Chicago Review of Books, The Millions, Arts of Asia, the Dublin Review of Books, Asian Review of Books, Kyoto Journal, Books on Asia, the New Rambler Review, etc. She was the winner of the 2020 Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction, judged by Joyce Carol Oates.