Author

Kit Nagamura

Kit Pancoast Nagamura graduated from Brown University, and first visited Japan on a Samuel T. Arnold fellowship offered through the generosity of IBM’s Thomas J. Watson, Jr. She later took a Master’s at the University of Michigan, where she won a Major Hopwood Award for fiction, then received a Ph.D. with honors from the University of Wisconsin. In Tokyo, she is a widely recognized photographer, writer, and haiku poet. Her work has appeared multiple times in Departures Magazine, SilverKris, JAL’s Skyward inflight magazine, the Japan Times and on NHK World’s international programming.