Roland Kelts is the author of the best-selling Japanamerica (2007), and his articles, essays, and stories have been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time, Zoetrope: All Story, The Village Voice, The Wall Street Journal, A Public Space, Newsday, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, The Yomiuri, and The Japan Times among others. He is contributing editor to Monkey Business, a literary journal focused on contemporary Japanese writing.