Keijiro Suga (b. 1958) is a poet and critic based in Tokyo. Formerly the president of ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment) Japan, his work covers ethnopoetics, ecocriticism, contemporary world literature, and translation theory. He was awarded the Yomiuri Prize for Literature in 2011 for his travel essays Transversal Journeys. With nine collections of poetry so far, he has been invited to read at poetry festivals and universities in more than twenty countries. A prolific translator, he has published more than thirty books translated from French, Spanish, and English to Japanese, including works by Edouard Glissant, Maryse Condé, J.M.G. Le Clézio, Antonin Artaud, Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, Isabelle Allende, Aimee Bender, and Patti Smith, among others. Currently he is professor of critical theory at Meiji University, Tokyo where he founded the graduate program “Places, Arts, and Consciousness”.