Shizuka Omori

Shizuka Omori was born in Okayama City in 1989. She is the author of three tanka collections: Burning the Palm of a Hand (KADOKAWA, 2013), Camille (Shoshikankanbo, 2018), and most recently, Hectare (Bungeishunju, 2022), which won the Tsukamoto Kunio Award. Omori has received numerous awards and is recognized as one of the leading tanka poets of her generation. She lives in Kyoto and serves as an editor for Tō, a longstanding tanka journal.