Corey Wakeling

Writer, translator, and scholar Corey Wakeling has lived in Japan since 2015. He is the author of four collections, the most recent, Uncle of Cats, being published by Cordite Books in 2025. A fifth collection, Endless Fields: Ploughing for Clothes, is forthcoming with Shearsman in late 2026. He is an associate professor of English at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo. Corey received a PhD in English from the University of Melbourne in 2013, and is the author of monograph Beckett’s Laboratory (Bloomsbury, 2021), co-editor of anthology Outcrop (Black Rider Press, 2013), and writer of numerous essays on modern and contemporary literature and performance. His translations of contemporary Japanese writers have featured in leading journals such as Fence, Asymptote, Second Factory, and Another Chicago Magazine, galleries such as Mori Gallery (Tokyo) and a83 (Manhattan), and theatres such as the Honda Theatre (Shimokitazawa).