Zoria April holds an MA in English literature and is currently a researcher of Japanese culture and visual poetry at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. She has published two poetry books, Stars and Sparks of a Dream (2000) and Wordigami (2015). Her unpublished manuscript Windhunt (2015) was one of the nominees in the New Voices Award of the International PEN Centre. She has also been one of the awardees of the Best Young Translator Award by the European Union Info Centre in Macedonia. She also does photography and takes part in group exhibitions and her photographs have been published in magazines. [Poetry]