Marie Iida

Marie Iida is a writer and Japanese-English interpreter based in Los Angeles. She played a key role as the on-camera interpreter in the Emmy-nominated Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. Her writing in translation includes over half a dozen monographs on contemporary Japanese artists, including Yayoi Kusama, Toyo Ito, and Kenya Hara for Rizzoli New York. Most recently, she co-translated Lady Joker (Soho Press/Baskerville), the acclaimed literary masterpiece by Kaoru Takamura, alongside Allison Markin Powell. She is currently working on her debut novel.