Diego Martina was born in Italy in 1986. He is a researcher of Japanese literature, a translator, and a poet. After graduating from the Sapienza University of Rome with a degree from the Department of Japanese in the School of East Asian Studies (where he majored in modern and contemporary Japanese literature), he completed a Master’s degree in Japanese literature. He studied abroad at Tokyo University of Foreign Languages and the University of Tokyo. As a translator, he has published Italian translations of Natsume Sōseki’s haiku and Tanikawa Shuntarō’s Nijuoku konen no kodoku (‘Two Billion Light Years of Solitude’). As a poet, his début collection, Moto kano no kisu no bakemono (‘The Ghost of My Ex’s Kisses’) was selected by the singer Hitoto Yō as one of her top three books of 2018. In January 2021, his essay on comparative culture, Godoku no Itaria (‘Misreadings of Italy’), was brought out by Kōbunsha. He is a member of Kuroda Momoko’s Aoi Haiku Group.