Toshiya Kamei

Toshiya Kamei holds an MFA in literary translation from the University of Arkansas. His translations have appeared in venues such as Clarkesworld, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Strange Horizons.

  • A collage of two image, one of a figure in silhouette staring up at the night sky overlaid on a crowded bookshelf

    Devour Me

    By Yuki Fuwa
    January 2022
    Yuki Fuwa
    Photo by Greg Rakozy & Alfons Morales on Unsplash In this short story from Japan, the narrator—who is disappearing organ by organ—dissolves into a library as encompassing as the cosmos.…
  • A photograph of plants seen through a bay of small windows. One window is fogged up

    A Family of Plants

    By Satomi Hara
    January 14, 2021 Satomi Hara
    Photo credit: Elsa Noblet / Unsplash After 140 days at home, one person wants more space; the other, more plants. I wanted a room of my own, so I talked my husband into moving into a larger…
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    Not Pregnant

    By Elaine Vilar Madruga
    Summer 2020
    Elaine Vilar Madruga
    Photo: Havana, Cuba by Tiago Claro / Unsplash In this work of creative nonfiction from Cuba, plague is something common shared with those who lived in Thebes. I carefully open a pregnancy te…