Katy Bridges

Katy Bridges is an unabashed fan of languages that end in verbs, of which Japanese is her favorite and the only one she translates. She lived and studied in Japan for five years. Katy’s favorite projects include the The Hoax, the light novels for Psycho Busters, picture book Wonderful Houses Around the World, Matthew Barney’s Drawing Restraint 9, survival horror game Resident Evil 2, and fight game Rival Schools. She has a BA from UCLA, studied Japanese at Keio University, was a Ministry of Education scholar at Oita University and has an MA in Japanese from San Francisco State University. She currently resides and makes music with her family in Northern California. You can follow her thoughts on books, translation, music and political tantrums on Twitter at @gate5road.