Andria McKnight

Andria McKnight is a Japanese-to-English novel and manga translator and the winner of the 2024 American Manga Award for Best New Edition of a Classic Manga for her translation of Ai Yazawa’s Neighborhood Story. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Literary Translation from the University of Iowa’s Translation Workshop, and is particularly passionate about bringing more classic works of all genres to English-language audiences, especially in the shoujo and josei genres. Her hobbies include cooking, collecting plushies from Round 1 claw catcher machines, playing cozy indie video games, and reading.