Aoko Matsuda

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Aoko Matsuda is a writer and translator. In 2021 her short-story collection Where the Wild Ladies Are, published by Soft Skull Press, was selected as one of the Ten Best Fiction Books of 2020 by Time and won the Firecracker Award in the fiction category and the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection in 2021. She has translated work by Karen Russell, Amelia Gray, and Carmen Maria Machado into Japanese.