Polly Barton is a writer and Japanese literary translator. Her translations include  Butter by Asako Yuzuki,  Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa,  Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda, and  There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura. She has published two works of non-fiction,  Fifty Sounds, for which she won the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, and  Porn: An Oral History.  What Am I, A Deer? is her debut novel.