Yasuhiro Totsumoto, a poet, essayist, and translator, was born in Osaka in 1959. He has spent much of his writing career outside Japan, living for 8 years in the United States and 26 years in Germany, all the while continuing to write in his native Japanese. His body of work includes 17 poetry collections, 2 novels, and several volumes of translations, essays, and literary criticism. In 2020, he relocated to Tokyo, where he now teaches poetry at universities and regularly organizes live poetry events in Shinjuku. In 2023, he participated in both the Iowa International Writing Program and the Hong Kong International Writers’ Workshop.