Rebecca Copeland

Rebecca Copeland is a writer of fiction and literary criticism and a translator of Japanese literature. Her stories travel between Japan and the American South and touch on questions of identity, belonging, and self-discovery. Hertranslation of Kirino Natsuo's The Goddess Chronicle won the PEN Translates Award, English PEN in 2013, and the Japan-US Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature, 2014-2015. After earning a PhD in Japanese literature at Columbia University, Copeland is now a professor at Washington University in St. Louis.