Fujiwara Akiko is a native of Kyoto, where she was born in 1974. She has published three volumes of poetry: An Other Mimicry (2013), which received the Hanatsubaki Prize, Pho to n, (2007), and Otozureru Koe (Visitor Voice) (2005), which received the Rekitei Shin’ei Prize. Fujiwara is also a past recipient of the annual prize from Gendaishi Techo (Contemporary Poetry Journal) for the best reader submissions of the year. She lives and works in Tokyo.