Coal Boy

Alban Kojima earned an M.A from Temple University and an M.S. in information science from Drexel University in Philadelphia. In 1988, he became Japanese Studies Informationist for Penn Libraries at the University of Pennsylvania, and at the same time he taught a graduate seminar entitled Japanese Studies Resources and Problems of Research. Since late-2012, Kojima has focused on writing. He has published in Tokyo, Japan, Yuzo Kayama and His Music: A Global Fascination (Sairyūsha, 2014), Alexie Sultanov (Alpha-Bater Books, 2027), Coal Boy (Gruernica Editions, 2023), and Tyrone and Myles (Guernica Editions, 2024). He lives in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.