Allison Markin Powell
Allison Markin Powell has been awarded grants from English PEN and the NEA, and the 2020 PEN America Translation Prize for The Ten Loves of Nishino by Hiromi Kawakami. Her other translations include works by Osamu Dazai, Fuminori Nakamura, and Shiori Ito (forthcoming). She was the co-organizer and co-host of the Translating the Future conference, and she maintains the database Japanese Literature in English.