Yukari Kojima

Yukari Kojima was born in 1956 in Aichi Prefecture and graduated from the Department of Literature, Waseda University. While still at Waseda, she began to write tanka poems and joined the Cosmos Tanka Society, where she studied under the poet Shuji Miya. In 1993, she went to the United States and lived there for two years. She is currently a poetry editor for Cosmos and the Sankei Shinbun, as well as a book reviewer for the Mainichi Shinbun and a member of the judging committee of the Hoso Bunka Foundation, Inc. Among her books of tanka are "Hope," which was awarded the Wakayama Bokusui Prize, and "Melancholy Spring," which was awarded the Choku Prize. Her non-fiction works include the essay collections "Sea of Fireflies" and "A Ferris Wheel of Poems," the critical book "The Poetry of Kimihiko Takano," as well as the poetry primers "Tomorrow rather than today," and "An introduction to the poetry composing journey: my Musashino explorations."

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