Eli K.P. William

Eli K.P. William has spent his entire adult life in Japan making a career out of story and language. The only member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan who writes novels in English, he is the author of The Jubilee Cycle trilogy (Skyhorse Publishing), set in a future Tokyo. The series includes Cash Crash Jubilee (2015) and The Naked World (2017), and concluded in 2023 with the final book A Diamond Dream. He also translates Japanese literature, including the bestselling novel A Man (Crossing) by Keiichiro Hirano and works as a bilingual story and writing consultant for a major Tokyo-based video game company. His translations, essays, and short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in such publications as Aeon, Granta, The Southern Review, Monkey, The Malahat Review, The Japan Times, Tor.com, Kyoto Journal, Writer’s Digest, Nippon.com, SF Prologue Wave, and Subaru. In addition to the SFWJ, he is also a member of both the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) and The Writers Union of Canada (TWUC).

Born and raised in Toronto, he visited Tokyo for the first time as a university student and decided to move there upon graduation. After ten years in the thick of the metropolis, he now lives in the green hills nearby with his wife and daughter.