Michael Pronko

Award-winning novelist, essayist, and journalist Michael Pronko has nearly thirty years of experience writing about jazz and Japan for Tokyo Q, The Japan Times, JJazz.net, Jazznin, and other publications. He contributed a chapter on Japanese jazz to The Routledge Companion to Jazz Studies (2021) and to The Jazz Omnibus (2024) collection of the Jazz Journalists Association. He runs the Jazz in Japan website with reviews, previews, essays, and interviews. He's also the author of the award-winning Tokyo-based Detective Hiroshi mystery series and the acclaimed Tokyo Moments series.