Kaori Fujino is an award-winning author. Her debut work of fiction, “Greedy Birds,” was awarded the Bungakukai Newcomers Prize in 2006, and her novel Nails and Eyes won the Akutagawa Prize in 2013. In 2017 she was a resident at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program. Her story “You Okay for Time?” was translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori and appeared in Granta in 2017. Nails and Eyes was translated by Kendall Heitzman (2023). Her stories “Someday with the One, the Perfect Bag” (MONKEY, vol. 3), “Transformers: Pianos” (vol. 4), “To Abuse a Monster” (vol. 5), and “The Key” (vol. 6) are translated by Laurel Taylor.