[1] While at Waseda University she started the journal Sajo (Sandcastles), where she published her fiction.
[2] She graduated from Waseda University with a degree in Japanese, then worked various jobs as a teacher, administrator, and copy editor while continuing to write fiction.
[4] For decades, Kuroda wrote stories that were published but did not win recognition in the form of literary awards.
[1][5] In 2012, nearly fifty years after her previous literary award, Kuroda won the Waseda Bungaku new writer competition for her experimental story a b sango, which was written mostly in hiragana rather than kanji, composed horizontally rather than vertically, and used no names or pronouns.
[8] In 2013, her story Kanjutai no odori, which she had written many years before a b sango, was published in book form.