In particular, she edited Granta's 127th issue on Japan which featured Japanese authors like Kimiko Hahn, Sayaka Murata, Hiromi Kawakami, Toshiki Okada, and others in translation.
[8] Upon her assumption of leadership there, Igarashi wanted to make use of her position to return to the press' identity as a "staple of the punk underground Lower East Side" from its earlier days by reprinting authors like Eileen Myles and Lynne Tillman and soliciting work from similar lineages of literature.
[9] In 2023, Catapult announced that it would be shutting down its magazine and workshop arms in order to focus exclusively on book publishing in its own imprint as well as Counterpoint and Soft Skull Press.
[10] From 2017 to 2022, Igarashi series-edited the annual anthology, The Best Debut Short Stories, which is a collaboration between PEN America, Catapult Books, and the guest judges brought on to read and select from each year's pool of submissions.
Upon her hiring, longtime publisher Fiona McCrae remarked, "Yuka has been something of a trail blazer in founding Catapult magazine, as well as in her work championing new voices there and at Granta and Soft Skull Press".