<strong>Simon Rowe is a New Zealand-born Australian writer based in western Japan for 28 years. His cosy mystery, Mami Suzuki: Private Eye (Penguin Random House), was nominated for Best First Novel in the 2024 Ngaio Marsh Awards. He has written on Japanese life and culture for TIME (Asia), The New York Times, The Australian, South China Morning Post, and The Paris Review. </strong>
