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.

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November 2025
Aoko Matsuda
Photo by Love the wind / Stock.adobe.com This short fiction is from the collection The Woman Dies (Europa, 2025), Aoko Matsuda’s feminist tales from Japan that blend humor, surrealism,…
Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda

Aoko Matsuda
New York. Soft Skull Press. 2020. 288 pages. AOKO MATSUDA’S STORY cycle takes its title from the children’s story Where the Wild Things Are, the replacement of “Things” with…