Yoko Danno is Japanese, living in Kobe. She has been writing poetry solely in English for more than forty years. Her poems have appeared internationally in various e-journals and magazines, including Otoliths, Pinstripe Fedra, ekleksographia, Shampoo, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Big Bridge, Pirene’s Fountain, a glimpse of (in English and in Greek), and in anthologies such as New Directions International Anthology of Poetry and Prose, poem, home: ars poetica, Sunrise from Blue Thunder, 4W, Poetry Kanto, FIRST WATER: Best of Pirene's Fountain ,among others. Her books of poems include “Epitaph for memories” (The Bunny and the Crocodile Press, 2002), "The Blue Door," a collaboration with James C. Hopkins (The Word Works, 2006), "a sleeping tiger dreams of manhattan: poetry, photographs and sound" by Danno, Hopkins, and Bernard Stoltz (The Ikuta Press, 2008) and "Trilogy & Hagoromo: A Celestial Robe" (The Ikuta Press, 2010). Her translation of Japanese myths and verses, "Songs and Stories of the Kojiki," compiled in the 8^th century, was published by Ahadada Books (Toronto/Tokyo, 2008). “a sleeping tiger…” was translated into Latvian and published by Mansards (Riga, 2012). "Aquamarine" was published by Glass Lyre Press (USA, January 2014).(http://www.glasslyrepress.com/),