Photo by Anna Kytömäki
Pekka Kytömäki (born Pekka Johannes Kytömäki, May 10, 1975, Hämeenlinna, Finland). Finnish translator and poet. Author of four poetry collections in Finnish, two of which include haiku: Ei talvikunnossapitoa (No Winter Maintenance, 2015) and Valo pilkkoo pimeää (The Light Divides the Darkness, 2016). Some of Kytömäki’s haiku and other poems are featured in the bilingual anthology Lungfuls of Silence / Keuhkojen täydeltä hiljaisuutta (2017), translated into English by Donald Adamson. Has resided in Tampere, Finland, since 1999.
Note: This is an abstract of a longer biographical article to come.