Tamaki Daido is a Japanese novelist, short story writer and essayist, she worked as a radio scriptwriter before focusing on her own writing career, she has since won the Kyushu Arts Festival Literary Prize, the Bunkamura Deux Magots Literary Prize, and the prestige Akutagawa Prize.
Her short story "Milk" was translated into English and appeared in a collection of short fiction by female Japanese writers "Inside and Other Short Fiction, Japanese Women by Japanese Women" in 2006.