Kubo Misumi

Born in Inagi, Tokyo, in 1965. Graduated from Caritas Girls’ Junior & Senior High School. Dropped out of junior college and started working at an advertising production company. Became a freelance writer after giving birth. Won the R-18 Literature Prize for Mikumari in 2009, the Yamamoto Shūgorō Prize in 2011 for Fugainai boku wa sora o mita (trans. So We Look to the Sky), the Yamada Fūtarō Prize in 2012 for Seiten no mayoi kujira (Stray Whale on a Sunny Day), and the Oda Sakunosuke Prize in 2019 for Toriniti (Trinity). Her latest novel, Haha no ren’ai (Mom in Love), was published in January 2021.