Born in Tokyo, Megumi Moriyama is a poet, English haiku poet, critic, and translator. She is the author of four full-length books of poetry, including Tangible Dreams (Yume no tezawari, 2005) and Green Zone (Midori no ryobun), which were composed for choir pieces, performed and published. Moriyama had been selected as a New Poet by Gendaishi-techo, and her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She has recently co-translated the full text of Arthur Waley’s The Tale of Genji and has won the 2020 Donald Keene Special Award. Her latest work is the translation of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves.