Laurel Taylor
Laurel Taylor is a translator, poet, writer, and scholar. Her recent work includes a co-translation (with Hitomi Yoshio) of Kawakami Mieko’s Sisters in Yellow, and her translation of Maiko Seo’s Five Blessings for a Wedding, forthcoming from Europa Editions.
She has also translated works by Kaori Fujino, Aoko Matsuda, and Minae Mizumura, among others. Her debut poetry collection, Human Construct (Human kōzō, Shichigatsudo Press) published in November, 2024. Taylor is currently a professor of Japanese at the University of Denver.
