David Karashima has translated a range of contemporary Japanese authors into English, including Hitomi Kanehara, Hisaki Matsuura, and Shinji Ishi. He co-edited the anthology March Was Made of Yarn: Writers Respond to the Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Meltdown and is co-editor of Pushkin Press's Contemporary Japanese Novellas series and Stranger Press's Keshiki Series. He is an associate professor of creative writing at Waseda University in Tokyo.