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Kaoru Sakasaki, translated by Toshiya Kamei

Toshiya Kamei Kaoru Sakasaki lives with his family in Yokohama, south of Tokyo. He writes late at night after putting his children to bed. In 2020, he won the Judges' Special Prize in the first Kaguya SF Contest organized by Virtual Gorilla Plus.

Toshiya Kamei holds an MFA in Literary Translation from the University of Arkansas. His translations have appeared in venues such as Clarkesworld, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Strange Horizons.

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