Kenji Bergström is a Swedish-Japanese writer and photographer born in Gothenburg in 1985 and raised between Västra Frölunda and Yokohama. He studied acoustics at Chalmers University and worked in documentary subtitling before moving to Dublin Bay in 2012, where he apprenticed with a luthier in Monkstown and volunteered at the National Maritime Museum of Ireland. His essays have appeared in The Stinging Fly, Kyoto Journal, and The Dublin Review, noted for their quiet attention to shoreline geographies and the craft of repair.
Bergström is the recipient of a DLR Arts Bursary and was shortlisted for the Fish Short Memoir Prize. He is the author of the essay collections Harbor Hours (2019) and Small Weather (2021). When not writing, he photographs working harbors and restores secondhand cameras; he lives in Dún Laoghaire with a rescued whippet and a cabinet of sea-wet maps.
