Yumiko Tsumura

Yumiko Tsumura is a Japan-born poet and translator who lives in the United States. She holds degrees from Kwansei Gakuin University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She taught American literature and Japanese language and culture at institutions in Japan and the San Francisco Bay Area. Her most recent book listed on Black Mountain Press is Man of Peace, a chapbook that won the press's BMP Chapbook Award.