Anne Ishii


Anne Ishii is a writer, editor, translator, and producer based in New York City.

Career

Producer

Ishii is a producer of bara manga. Her work includes The Passion of Gengoroh Tagame: Master of Gay Erotic Manga, and , edited alongside Graham Kolbeins, featuring manga artists Gengoroh Tagame, Jiraiya, Seizoh Ebisubashi, Kazuhide Ichikawa, Inu Yoshi, Takeshi Matsu, Gai Mizuki and Poosukeh Kumada, with artwork by Chip Kidd. In 2013, Ishii founded Massive Goods with Graham Kolbeins, a line of Bara Japanese manga and paraphernalia tied to their graphic novel of the same name.
She is the translator of the English version of Tagame's manga My Brother's Husband.

Published works

Ishii's translation credits include the Aranzi Machine Gun series, Aranzi Aronzo Fun Dolls , The Cute Book, The Bad Book, Gunji, and .
Formerly with Vertical, she is the editor-in-chief of They're All So Beautiful and Paperhouses. As a writer, Ishii has been published by The Village Voice, Slate, Publishers Weekly, Guernica, Giant Robot, and Asian American Writers' Workshop.