Naoko Fujimoto was born and raised in Nagoya, Japan. Her poetry collections are We Face The Tremendous Meat On The Teppan, winner of C&R Press Summer Tide Pool Chapbook Award (2022); Where I Was Born, winner of the editor’s choice by Willow Books (2019); Glyph:Graphic Poetry=Trans. Sensory by Tupelo Press (2021); and four chapbooks. She is a RHINO associate & outreach translation editor and Tupelo Quarterly translation editor.