Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda is a literary translator. Born in Tokyo, raised in Texas, she received her BA from Wesleyan University and her PhD from UC Berkeley. With Allison Markin Powell, she is the translator of Ryūnosuke Akutagwa’s Kappa (New Directions, 2023). Her work has appeared in The Baffler, LitHub, Guernica, and Chicago Review, and is forthcoming from New Directions, Knopf, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux.