Keijiro Suga (b. 1958) is a Tokyo-based poet and critic. After studying anthropology and comparative literature at the Universities of Hawai’i, New Mexico, and Washington (Seattle), he is currently professor of critical theory at Meiji University, Tokyo, where he founded the graduate program “Places, Arts, and Consciousness.” He was awarded the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, one of the most prestigious literary prizes in Japan, for his book of travel writing Transversal Journeys in 2011. Beginning with his Agend’Ars tetralogy (2010-13), he has published nine collections of poetry in Japanese and two chapbooks in English: Transit Blues (2018) and towatowato (2023). As a translator, he has translated major works by Antonin Artaud, Édouard Glissant, Maryse Condé, Isabel Allende, Jamaica Kincaid, and Patti Smith, among others. His latest book The Heterotopia Texts was published in 2024.