TED
GOOSSEN teaches Japanese literature and film at York University in Toronto. He
is the editor of The Oxford Book of
Japanese Short Stories. He translated Haruki Murakami's Wind/Pinball and The Strange Library, and co-translated (with Philip Gabriel) Men Without Women and Killing Commendatore. His translations
of Hiromi Kawakami's People from My
Neighborhood (Granta Books and Soft Skull Press) and Naoya Shiga's Reconciliation (Canongate) were
published in 2020.

MOTOYUKI SHIBATA translates American literature
and runs the Japanese literary journal MONKEY.
He has translated Paul Auster, Rebecca Brown, Stuart Dybek, Steve Erickson,
Brian Evenson, Laird Hunt, Kelly Link, Steven Millhauser, and Richard Powers,
among others. His translation of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was a bestseller in Japan in 2018.
Among his recent translations is Eric McCormack's Cloud.