Craig Mod

Craig Mod (born 1980 in Hartford) is an American writer, photographer and essayist who has lived in Japan since 2000. Much of his writing records long walks across Japan, including his books Kissa by Kissa (2020) and Things Become Other Things, a memoir of walking the Kumano Kodō published by Random House in 2025. He writes for The New York Times, The Atlantic and Eater, and publishes the monthly newsletter Roden, on photography, literature, technology and film, and the weekly Ridgeline, on walking in Japan. He worked at Flipboard from 2010 to 2012 and received a MacDowell Fellowship in non-fiction in 2012.