Avery Fischer Udagawa
Avery Fischer Udagawa is a translator of children's books from Japanese. Biography. Udagawa grew up in Kansas and studied English and Asian Studies at St. Olaf College in Minnesota. She studied at Nanzan University, Nagoya, on a Fulbright Fellowship, and at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama, later earning an MA in Advanced Japanese Studies from The University of Sheffield. She writes, translates, and works in international education near Bangkok. She is a campaigner for literary translation, and literary translators, especially with the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Avery Fischer