About
Sharni is a freelance writer and translator with over ten years' experience working from Japanese to English. After living in Japan for five years, where she worked as an in-house translator, she completed her Masters with First Class Honours in Japanese literature at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Books
One to Many and other experiments
(At the Bay ¦ I te Kokoru, 2024)
Winner of the ATB | ITK 2023 award for a hybrid collection.
Prose, poetry and translation hybridise at unexpected intersections and dance in surreal meta-landscapes. One to Many delves into relationships and their beginnings, middles and ends; how one person relates to another or to many others in circles of intimacy and exclusion.
Swan Knight
by Fumio Takano (Luna Press, 2024)
Quirky alternate history steampunk novella featuring the Swan King.
As the nineteenth century draws toward its close, King Ludwig II of Bavaria binge-watches television to escape his reality, side-lined by his own advisers. His one wish is to meet Wagner, the mysterious composer pumping out new music and scores of remixes every day.
Translation
A range of projects translated from the Japanese.
The Secret by Fumio Takano, khōréō, December 2024
Death Valley by Junko Mase, World Literature Today, July 2024
P-Pod by Kaori Fujino, Words Without Borders, July 2024
Sunset Road by Uda Tamaki, 9th Book Shorts Award Winner, March 2023
Go For It by Masami Kakinuma, Japan Cultural Expo, November 2022
The One I Want to Meet by Moe Haruno, 8th Book Shorts Award Winner, April 2022
Yokai by Yumoto Koichi, April 2022
Time Arrows by Masatomo Tamaru, Japan Cultural Expo, November 2021
Girl Friends by Kaori Ekuni, Lunch Ticket, December 2020
A Sunlit Table by Yuta Takano, Japan Cultural Expo, December 2020
Night, Wife, Detergent by Kaori Ekuni, Asymptote, August 2020
Intelligence, Artificial and Human: Eight Science Fiction Tales by Japanese Authors, anthology for Dublin WorldCon by AI x SF, August 2019
Strokes of Brush and Blade, samurai tales from Kurodahan Press, August 2019
Incense by Akane Ichinose, Tokyo Poetry Journal, June 2019
Yokai Storyland by Yumoto Koichi, 2019
Yokai Wonderland by Yumoto Koichi, 2018
Something Wicked from Japan by Ei Nakau, 2016
Writing
Selected projects (mostly fiction), linked to other websites.
Signifying: a tale told by a bakamajime, Te Moana o Reo ¦ Ocean of Languages, February 2025
Poster child, Te Moana o Reo ¦ Ocean of Languages, February 2025
Segedínský Guláš (reprint), SugarSugarSalt, September 2024
A framework for understanding entropy in clique networks, Turbine ¦ Kapohau, December 2023
Man drought, Meraki Press, September 2023
Social Media User, Miracle Monocle, April 2023
The Goldilocks Principle, Roi Fainéant Press, April 2023
babble/バベル, Hemlock Magazine of Poetry, January 2023
Better Go Dance With Her, Unstamatic / Hidden Words, October 2022
Segedínský Guláš, The Malahat Review, Winter 2021
Inertia, Ellipsis Zine, March 2021
One to Many, Landfall, November 2020
Iteration, 2020 Micro Fiction Prize Winner, Grindstone, October 2020
Coffice Unrest, Reading Room/Best of Auckland, August 2020
A Personal Anthology, May 2020
Fingers, Pidgeonholes, March 2020
Fourteenth Birthday Chat, Ash Tales, February 2020
White Whale, The Stockholm Review of Literature, October 2019
On the Seventh Day, takahē magazine, December 2018
