![]() I wrote lots of dark poems and gothic lyrics. I didn’t have a TV, and I could only read so much, so I started to write in little black and red one-dollar diaries I bought in San Francisco’s Chinatown. I was a rebellious (read: mouthy) kid from a troubled family, and I was constantly being grounded. When did you start writing? Did you write as a child? ![]() Leza graciously took time out of her very busy schedule to answer a few questions for WOW !. Friendship Commission Award for the Translation of Japanese Literature from the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University.Ībout a year ago, she and her husband adopted a Japanese toddler. She has just published her fifteenth book, America and Other Poems by Ayukawa Nobuo that she co-translated with her husband, Shogo Oketani.Īmong her many honors are a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, a translation fellowship from the NEA, a California Arts Council Individual Fellowship in Poetry, and, along with Oketani, the 2003 Japan-U.S. ![]() Expatriate literary circles in Japan, Leza Lowitz is well known as an award-winning poet, fiction writer, and translator, and the owner of the Sun & Moon Yoga studio, which is frequently featured in Japanese magazines. ![]()
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