Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda is a Japanese to English literary translator based in New York City.

Born in Tokyo, raised in Texas, she received her B.A. from Wesleyan University and her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. From 2018-2019, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University.

She has taught classes and workshops at Grinnell College, Catapult, and the Bard Microcollege Program among other places. She is an active member of the ALTA BIPOC Translators Caucus and a two-time graduate of the British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT) Summer School.

With Allison Markin Powell, she is the co-translator of Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s KAPPA (New Directions, 2023). Her work has appeared in The Baffler, LitHub, and Guernica, and is forthcoming from New Directions, Knopf, and FSG.

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