Ryan Choi is the author of In Dreams: The Very Short Stories of Ryūnosuke Akutagawa and the forthcoming “Three Demons”: A Study on Sanki Saitō’s Haiku. He is an editor at AGNI. His writings and translations have appeared in Harper’s, the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, The New Criterion, Raritan, The Times Literary Supplement, and other outlets. He lives in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, where he was born and raised.