Leanne Ogasawara

Leanne Ogasawara lived in Japan and worked as a translator from Japanese for two decades. Her poetry translations have appeared peer-reviewed in two separate issues of Transference, Department of World Languages and Literatures at Western Michigan University), as well as in the University of Iowa’s journal of literary translation Exchanges. Others have also been published at Asymptote, Kyoto Journal, and a poem included in Barbara Abercrombie's book, The Language of Loss. Three were also included in the recent Lunar Codex Time Capsule mission to the moon! Her creative writing has appeared in Aeon, The Millions, the Michigan Quarterly Review, Pleiades Magazine, Gulf Coast Journal, Kyoto Journal, River Teeth/Beautiful Things, Hedgehog Review, Entropy, etc. She received a Contributor’s Award for 2023 Bread Loaf as well, as a residency award to work on her story collection at the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, in Taos in 2024. Her short story Bare Bones received the 2020 Calvino Prize, judged by Joyce Carol Oats. Her original poetry has appeared in the Ekphrastic Review.