Aoko Matsuda

Aoko Matsuda (松田青子 Matsuda Aoko; born 1979) is a Japanese writer and translator. She is the winner of the 2021 World Fantasy Award—Collection.

Biography
Aoko Matsuda was born in 1979, in Hyōgo Prefecture. She is an alumna of the Doshisha University, where she studied English.

She made her debut in 2007. Her first collection of short stories, Stackable, was nominated for the Mishima Yukio and Noma Literary New Face Prize (2013). Her stories have appeared in such literary magazines as Granta and Monkey Business. In 2019, the English translation of her short story titled The Woman Dies was included in the shortlist for the Shirley Jackson Award. Two years later, the English translationn of Matsuda's short story collection called Where the Wild Ladies Are won in the Collection category of the World Fantasy Awards and in the Fiction category of the Firecracker Awards.

Matsuda has translated from English into Japanese, including literary works by Karen Russell, Amelia Gray and Carmen Maria Machado.