Born in Hiroshima, Japan, H Kyoko Uchida grew up moving back and forth between Japan, the U.S. and Canada; she writes primarily in English. After receiving an M.F.A. from Cornell University and teaching there for two years, she has been working as a bilingual editor and translator in New York City and Washington, D.C. Her poetry and translations have appeared in Black Warrior Review, Conversations (Australia), the Georgia Review, Grand Street, Manoa, Northwest Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Phoebe, Prairie Schooner, the Prose Poem, Runes, Shenandoah, Virginia Quarterly Review and other journals, and has been anthologized in Stories in the Stepmother Tongue (White Pine Press, 2000). Currently she lives in Jerusalem, where her journalist husband is on assignment.