Yūki Itō received his Ph.D. in Literature from Kumamoto University, in 2011, and is currently an editor at an academic publishing house in Tokyo. At age sixteen he began writing haiku, and in 2001 joined the Modern Haiku Association (Tokyo). Publications include New Rising Haiku: The Evolution of Modern Japanese Haiku and the Haiku Persecution Incident (Red Moon Press, 2007), the noted translation series Kaneko Tohta: Four Volumes Series (co-author, Red Moon Press, 2011-2012), and the English-language education textbook Grammar Discovery (Cengage Learning, 2013).
