Nakagami Nori was born in Tokyo and educated at the University of Hawai'i. She was a participant in the University of Iowa's International Writing Program in 2002. She is the author of Kumano monogatari (Tales of Kumano, 2009). Her most recent work, Tengu no kairo (The Goblin Circuit), has just been published by Chikuma Shobō. She is active in Kumano Daigaku, the annual summer symposium founded by her father, the prominent postwar writer Nakagami Kenji (1946-92). "The Phone Call" (Denwa), published in the "Writing Japan" issue of Cha, was nominated for the 2011 Kawabata Yasunari Literary Prize, the most prominent prize for short stories in Japanese. [Fiction]