Naoko Fujimoto

Naoko Fujimoto (she/her) was born and raised in Nagoya, Japan, and studied at Nanzan Junior College. She was an exchange student and earned a BA and an MA from Indiana University. Her poetry collections include We Face the Tremendous Meat on the Teppan, winner of the C&R Press Summer Tide Pool Chapbook Award (2022); Where I Was Born, winner of the editor's choice by Willow Books (2019); Glyph: Graphic Poetry=Trans. Sensory by Tupelo Press (2021); and four chapbooks. She is a RHINO associate and translation editor, a Tupelo Quarterly translation editor, and a Bread Loaf Translation Scholarship recipient.