Ayaka Sato
Born in Hyogo Prefecture, Ayaka Sato is above all a haiku and free verse poet, debuted in 2006 with a Yasuko Tsushima Prize at the Fukio Shiba Haiku Debut Competition. Her first collection “Kaisō-Hyohon (Specimina Algarum)” won the 2008 Sakon So Haiku Grand Prize. Her numerous publications include an anthology “Amanogawa Ginga Hatsudensho: Born after 1968 Gendai Haiku Gaidobukku (Milkyway Galaxy Powerplant: Contemporary Haiku Poets Born after 1968),” a story collection “Son na Koto yori Kisu Datta (It Was a Kiss Above All),” and one of several haiku collections “Koe wa kierunoni (Fictional California)”. Her first free-verse collection, “Watasu Te (Reaching Out) “, won the 2024 Chuya Nakahara Prize. She writes haiku, free verse, and essays, and is involved in planning and editing books and journals of a wide variety of poetry in the Japanese language.
Additionally, she had lived in Berkeley, CA for a year from fall 2021-2022. She also attended the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference 2022 and participated in the Kyoto Writers Residency (KWR02) in 2023.
◆15 Haiku by Ayaka Sato
Translated into English by Fay Aoyagi with Patricia Machmiller, Sue Antolin, and Phillip Kennedy
Edited by Johnny Yoshida
◆Kyoto Writers Residency【KWR02】Ayaka Sato
Fictional California 10 Haiku（『Fictional California』）/ Creeping Woodsorrel and the Woods（『Reaching Out』）
Translated into English by Corey Wakeling and Hiromitsu Koiso
◆Asymptote Journal Ayaka Sato
The Unseen Kyoto A selection of six poems
Translated into English by Corey Wakeling and Hiromitsu Koiso
