Naoko Higashi

Naoko Higashi is a multi-award-winning Japanese poet, novelist, children’s writer and screenwriter. She is best known for her work in the Japanese tanka poetry form. Her fictional work includes The House in the Forest of Threads, which won the thirty-first Tsubota Joji Literature Award and was subsequently made into a television drama. The Soul-Catchers was made into a film in 2024. Her most recent work is The Flannel’s Thread. Meet her on Instagram: @Higashinaokoh.