Takami Nieda
Born in New York City, Takami Nieda has translated more than ten Japanese works into English. Her translations of GO by Kazuki Kaneshiro and The Color of the Sky Is the Shape of the Heart by Chesil both won the Freeman Book Award for Young Adult Literature. Other notable translations include Finger Bone by Hiroki Takahashi and the forthcoming Recovery Hippo by Michiko Aoyama. Nieda serves on the University of Washington Translation Studies Hub, mentors emerging translators, and teaches writing and literature at Seattle Central College.
