Leza Lowitz

Leza Lowitz is an American poet, essayist, and fiction writer living in Japan. She received the Japan–U.S. Friendship Commission Award from Columbia University for the Translation of Japanese Literature. Her other honors include the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, the Josephine Miles Award for Poetry, and an NEA fellowship in translation. Leza also guest-edited two other issues: Fiction from Japan in 1995 (7:1) and Silence to Light: Japan and the Shadows of War in 2001 (13:1).
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