talks and readings

The Wonderful World of Picture Books by Shinsuke Yoshitake

A guest post for the Global Literature in Libraries Initiative as part of their month-long celebration of kidlit from Japan. 

September 2026

Making Magic of One Sort and Another

A guest post for the Do Re Mi Books blog about what translating a picture book is like, with highlights from several Japanese picture books I've translated for them.

August 2026

Japanese Literature in English: Book Readings

An afternoon of translators reading their work at Human Arts Studio in Tsukuba, Japan March 1, 2026

Lisa Wilcut on Translating a Bilingual Picture Book

Talking with SCBWI about What the Children Drew: Art from Gaza and Tokyo (iF Gold Award, 2026)

July 28, 2025

On the Front Lines of the JLPP: A conversation with Rebecca Gade and Lisa Wilcut

Interviewed by the Japan Association of Translators

October 12, 2024

Lisa Wilcut on I CAN OPEN IT FOR YOU

SCBWI interview

March 2024

Fiction Inspired by a Sense of Place

Me interviewing author David Joiner for SWET (Society of Writers, Editors, and Translators)

December 2023

Tokyo Poetry Journal Speaks with WiK

Me interviewing TPJ founders Jeffrey Johnson and Taylor Mignon for Writers in Kyoto

September 2022

Wordsmiths on the Move

Participant in panel interview for SWET (Society of Writers, Editors, and Translators)

November 2021

Meredith McKinney on Saigyō and Gazing at the Moon

Guest interviewer on the Books on Asia podcast

October 2021

Ginny Tapley Takemori Talks with WiK

Me interviewing Ginny for Writers in Kyoto

July 2021

Virtual Gion Festival

Me interviewing Catherine Pawasarat for Writers in Kyoto

July 2020