Yukiko Tominaga was born and raised in Japan. She was a finalist for the 2020 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, selected by Roxane Gay. Her debut novel See: Loss. See Also: Love., published by Scribner in 2024, was longlisted for the 2025 PEN Open Book Award and a Martin Cruz Smith Award for Emerging Diverse Voices.  She is a contributing editor at Counterpoint Press, where she helps to introduce never-before-translated books from Japan to English-language readers.

Photo by Mayumi Yamada.