About
Sharni is a freelance writer and translator with over ten years' experience working from Japanese to English. After living in Japan for five years, where she worked as an in-house translator, she completed her Masters with First Class Honours in Japanese literature at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Translation
A range of recent projects linked to other websites.
Sunset Road
by Uda Tamaki, 9th Book Shorts Award Winner, March 2023
Go For It
by Masami Kakinuma, Japan Cultural Expo, November 2022
Yokai
by Yumoto Koichi, April 2022
The One I Want to Meet
by Moe Haruno, 8th Book Shorts Award Winner, April 2022
Time Arrows
by Masatomo Tamaru, Japan Cultural Expo, November 2021
Girl Friends
by Kaori Ekuni, Lunch Ticket, December 2020
A Sunlit Table
by Yuta Takano, Japan Cultural Expo, December 2020
Night, Wife, Detergent
by Kaori Ekuni, Asymptote, August 2020
Intelligence, Artificial and Human: Eight Science Fiction Tales by Japanese Authors
Anthology for Dublin WorldCon by AI x SF, August 2019
Strokes of Brush and Blade
Samurai tales from Kurodahan Press, August 2019
Incense
by Akane Ichinose, Tokyo Poetry Journal, June 2019
Yokai Storyland
by Yumoto Koichi, April 2019
Yokai Wonderland
by Yumoto Koichi, 2018
Something Wicked from Japan
by Ei Nakau, 2016
"Hiroshima" by Guwashi999 is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
Writing
Selected projects linked to other websites.
A framework for understanding entropy in clique networks
Flash fiction, Turbine ¦ Kapohau
December 2023
babble/バベル
Poem, Hemlock Magazine of Poetry, January 2023
Better Go Dance With Her
Flash fiction, Unstamatic / Hidden Words, October 2022
Segedínský Guláš
Creative nonfiction, The Malahat Review, Winter 2021
Inertia
Flash fiction, Ellipsis Zine, March 2021
One to Many
Flash fiction, Landfall, November 2020
Iteration
2020 Micro Fiction Prize Winner, Grindstone, October 2020
Coffice Unrest
Short story, Reading Room / Best of Auckland anthology, August 2020
A Personal Anthology
List of twelve short stories, May 2020
Fingers
Flash fiction, Pidgeonholes, March 2020
Fourteenth Birthday Chat
Post-apocalyptic short story, Ash Tales, February 2020
White Whale
Short story, The Stockholm Review of Literature, October 2019
On the Seventh Day
Short story, takahē magazine, December 2018
"Mist Walkers" by Neillwphoto is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
