Kaori Fujino

Kaori Fujino (藤野可織) is a Japanese author born in Kyoto in 1980. She studied aesthetics and art at Doshisha University, earning a master's degree from its graduate school. She won the 103rd Bungeishunju Prize for New Writers in 2006 for "Iyashii Tori" and the 149th Akutagawa Prize in 2013 for "Tsume to Me" (published in English as "Nails and Eyes").

Her fiction reimagines tropes from horror, science fiction and urban legend, and her stories have appeared in English translation in Granta, Monkey and the US-Japan Women's Journal. In 2017 she took part in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.