Kei Ichiki Author

Kei Ichiki was born in Fukuoka in 1979 and graduated from the Tokyo Metropolitan University. Zero Chance of No Regrets was published by Shinchosa in Japan and has sold over 60,000 copies; the book’s opening chapter was awarded the 15th By Women For Women R-18 Literary Prize. She currently lives in Bangkok.

Charlotte Goff is an Edinburgh-based Japanese-English literary translator. She has translated Beautiful Distance by Nao-Cola Yamazaki (Daunt, 2026), and Tree by Aya Koda (Penguin, 2026). In 2024, she was selected for one of the National Centre for Writing's Emerging Translator Mentorships.