Aoko Matsuda is a writer and translator. In 2013, her debut book Stackable was nominated for the Mishima Yukio Prize and the Noma Literary New Face Prize. In 2019, her short story 'The Woman Dies', published by Granta, was shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson Award. In 2021, her short story collection Where the Wild Ladies Are, published by Soft Skull Press, was highly praised by the BBC, Guardian, NY Times, and The New Yorker, and was selected as one of the 10 Best Fiction Book of 2020 by TIME. It was nominated for a Ray Bradbury Prize sponsored by the LA Times and won The Firecracker Award in the fiction category and World Fantasy Award for Best Collection in 2021. She has translated work by Karen Russell, Amelia Gray and Carmen Maria Machado into Japanese.

Polly Barton is a translator of Japanese literature and non-fiction, currently based in Bristol. Her most recent full-length translations include Butter by Asako Yuzuki, Spring Garden by Tomoka Shibasaki, Where the Wild Ladies Are by Matsuda Aoko, and Kikuko Tsumura's novel There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job. Her debut non-fiction work, Fifty Sounds, was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions.