Rebecca Copeland

Rebecca Copeland is Professor of Japanese literature at Washington University in St. Louis. A writer of fiction and literary criticism and a translator of Japanese literature, her stories travel between Japan and the American South and touch on questions of identity, belonging, and self-discovery. Co-editor of Yamamba: In Search of the Mountain Witch, along with Linda C. Ehrlich, she is also the author of the novel The Kimono Tattoo (Brother Mockingbird Publishers, 2021).