Polly Barton is a Japanese translator and writer. Her translations include Where the Wild Ladies Are and The Woman Dies by Aoko Matsuda, Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa, There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura, and Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai. Her translation of Asako Yuzuki’s Butter was named Waterstones Book of the Year 2024. She is the author of Fifty Sounds and Porn: An Oral History, and the upcoming novel, What am I, A Deer?, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions.