Writers in Kyoto members include authors, translators, photographers, designers and others in Japan and around the world who share an affinity for Kyoto.

By order of seniority (updated Dec. 2024):

John Dougill (Founder) — Non-fiction about Japan
David Duff — Self-published author
Ted Taylor — Writer, blogger, internationalizationer
Karen Lee Tawarayama — Blogger, Translator/Interpreter
Robert Yellin — Columnist, author and expert on ceramics
Ken Rodgers — Kyoto Journal managing editor
James Woodham — Translator, poet and photographer
Eric Bray — Academic writer
Marianne Kimura — Academic writer and novelist
Allen S. Weiss — Writer, photographer, teacher, gourmand
David Joiner — Literary novelist
Paul Carty (Treasurer) — Academic author
Mayumi Kawaharada (Japanese Liaison) — Poet and vegetarian blogger
Jann Williams — Writer, blogger, ecologist
Ian Richards — Short story writer and biographer
Cody Poulton — Theatre critic, translator, essayist
Mark Hovane — Writer on Japanese gardens
Simon Rowe — Author and screenplay writer
Alex Kerr (Honorary Member) — Japanologist, art connoisseur and rural revivalist
Christopher Herron — Wordsmith
Kirsty Kawano — Freelance journalist and translator
Fernando Torres (Instagram) — Fantasy and Historical Fiction
Mike Freiling — Poet, translator and short story writer
Judith Clancy — Books about Kyoto and J. culture
Nicholas Teele — Academic writer and translator
Rebecca Otowa (Reviews) — Various genres incl. Japan non-fiction and illustration
Mark Willis — Academic writer, personal essayist
Reggie Pawle — Pyschotherapy, intercultural studies and blogger
Malcolm Ledger — Essayist and occasional poet
Julian Holmes — Translator
Susan Pavloska — Writer (various genres), editor
Catherine Pawasarat — Spiritual adventure non-fiction
Rona Conti — Calligraphy expert and writer
Robert Weis — Travel and geopoetry
Felicity Tillack — Filmmaker, blogger and poet
Tina deBellegarde (Membership Secretary) — Novelist, short fiction writer, book reviewer
Stephen Mansfield — Non-fiction writer, photographer
Lisa Twaronite Sone (Anthology Supervisor) — Journalism, fiction, copyediting
Edward Levinson — Photographer, essayist, poet
Yuki Yamauchi — Translator and writer
Andrew Innes — Short story writer
Hamish Downie — Writer and producer
Stephen Benfey — Short story writer
Suzanne Kamata — Author and Editor
Nathan Mader — Poems and Drawings
Rick Elizaga — Web Designer
Eleanor Yamaguchi — Academic Writer and Historian
Sara Ackerman Aoyama — J-E Translator, Librarian and Writer
Rebecca Copeland — Academic writer, translator, novelist
Alejandra Olivera — Historic Japanese Fiction, Clinical psychologist, Artist, Musician
Amber A. Logan — Speculative Fiction Novelist
Jonah Salz — Academic Writer, Translator, Editor
Elaine Lies — Journalist, Fiction
Richard Byford — Writer, diarist, Japanologist, countryside explorer.
Lea Millay — Poet
Amanda Huggins — Author, travel writer, poet
Yasuo Nagai — cross-industry exchange host
David Rycroft — Academic, Japan Studies
Shuri Obayashi — illustrator, writer, editor
Abigail Deveney — Story-listener, storyteller
Bruce Hamana — chanoyu student and teacher, essayist
Daniel Sofer — Landscape & Architecture Photographer, Blogger, Author
Mayumi Yamamoto — academic writer and essayist, court interpreter
Travis Belrose — Novelist
Bruce Smith — Non-fiction writer
Dave Pregoner — Multi-lingual poet-fictionist, editor
Owen Smith — Short Story Writer
Sue Hadju — Writer, Translator, Photographer
Mary Louise P. Nagata — Social Historian, Musician, Editor (CUP), Translator
Natalie Leon — Non-fiction Writer & Seasonality Specialist
Laura McWane — Illustrator & Philologist
Pamela Asai — visual artist & poet