Janine Beichman, biographer and translator of Japanese poets, has published Masaoka Shiki: His Life and Works, and Embracing the Firebird: Yosano Akiko and the Birth of the Female Voice in Modern Japanese Poetry. Beneath the Sleepless Tossing of the Planets, her translations of the selected poems of Ōoka Makoto, was awarded the 2019-2020 Japan-United States Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature. Her most recent book is This Overflowing Light, translations of the poet Ishigaki Rin.