Aoko Matsuda is one of Japan’s most promising young novelists. She has published two collections of short stories, and has also translated Karen Russell’s St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. Among English translations of her work are “Photographs Are Images,” translated by Jeffrey Angles and included in the current issue of Monkey Business, as well as “Smartening Up,” translated by Polly Barton in the online edition of Granta.