Kyoko Selden is the author of a number of articles, translations and edited volumes. She is the co-translator of Kayano Shigeru’s Our Land Was a Forest (Westview, 1994), translator of Honda Katsuichi’s Harukor: Ainu Woman’s Tale (University of California Press, 2000), The Atomic Bomb: Voices From Hiroshima and Nagasaki (M.E. Sharpe, 1997), and most recently, More Stories By Japanese Women Writers, An Anthology. She is an Asia-Pacific Journal associate. Kyoko Selden taught Japanese language-literature at Cornell University until 2008. (from http://japanfocus.org/-Kyoko-Selden)