Mike Fu is a Tokyo-based writer, editor, and translator. His Chinese-English translation of Stories of the Sahara by Sanmao (Bloomsbury, 2020) was named a Favorite Book of the Year by the Paris Review and shortlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Prose. Fu's debut novel Masquerade was published by Tin House in 2024. He has taught at Temple University Japan, Parsons School of Design, and the City University of New York, and received his PhD in cultural studies from Waseda University. He is writer and editor for The Japan Times.
- PhD in Cultural Studies, Waseda University
- MFA in Creative Writing, Queens College, City University of New York
- MA in East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
- BA in Cinema-Television Production and French, University of Southern California
- Masquerade, Tin House, 2024
- “Memory and Mythmaking: World War II in Chinese Cinema” in Routledge Handbook of Trauma in East Asia, 2023
- “Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Cinema of Stillness” in Tokyo Weekender, 2022
- “Subaquatic Homesick Blues” in Public Books, 2021
- Stories of the Sahara by Sanmao, Bloomsbury, 2020
- “On Tenderness” in Slant’d, 2019
- “Of Time and Tongue” in No Tokens, 2017
- “Desiderata” in Perigee, 2016
- National Translation Award in Prose Shortlist, 2021
- Writers Omi at Ledig House, 2015