STEPHEN D. MILLER, associate professor of Japanese language and literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is the author of The Wind from Vulture Peak: The Buddhification of Japanese Waka in the Heian Period (Cornell East Asia Series, 2013), translator of A Pilgrim’s Guide to Forty-Six Temples (Weatherhill Inc., 1990), and editor of Partings at Dawn: An Anthology of Japanese Gay Literature (Gay Sunshine Press, 1996). Miller’s co-translations with Patrick Donnelly of medieval Japanese Buddhist poetry have appeared in many literary and translation journals, including Circumference, The Harvard Review, and Kyoto Journal.
