UGUISU BIO

UGUISU is the translation/creative duo of Michiyo Miyake and Nicholas Marshall. Based in Sydney, we offer quality Japanese-English translation, editing, proofreading and sensitivity reading for writers, artists, and academics. We launched an independent publishing label UGUISU BOOKS in 2023.

Michiyo Miyake: Writer and translator, born in Japan and based in Australia. She studied Modernist British/American literature and holds a PhD from Waseda University in Tokyo. She began her career in Japan, publishing articles on British and American literature and culture during the inter-war period. As a translator, she has worked on various literary and contemporary art projects. As a writer, her recent publications include a novella Green Metal: Life in Tokyo during the Nuclear Catastrophe (2024)and spiral history: TIDE (2023), a zine about the history of the islands where Australia’s detention centers are located, in collaboration with the artist Haji Oh.. 

Nicholas Marshall: Editor and translator based in Sydney. He has a PhD in applied linguistics and was a professor of English for Academic Purposes in the postgraduate school of Meiji University in Tokyo. He taught academic English at Tsuda College and Waseda University in Japan, and Macquarie University in Sydney.

UGUISU (鶯) refers to the Japanese bush warbler. In haiku, a traditional form of Japanese poetry, it’s often associated with spring, marked by its distinctive call.