Born in Japan and raised in the US, Sawako Nakayasu is an artist working with language, performance, and translation. Her books include Pink Waves (Omnidawn, 2023) and Some Girls Walk Into The Country They Are From (Wave Books, 2020), both of which engage the intersection between writing and translation. Settle Her, written on the #1 bus line in Providence, Rhode Island on Thanksgiving Day of 2017 on the occasion of her cutting ties with normative Thanksgiving celebrations, is forthcoming from Solid Objects.