Anne Ishii

Anne Ishii is the program director at United States Artists, and until the summer of 2024, executive director of Asian Arts Initiative. On top of NPN, Anne is also Co-Chair of the Asian American Writers Workshop and volunteers service to the field of arts and culture as a writer and musician herself. As a percussionist, she performs in free music and improv scenes throughout the country in many arrangements, including the trio Totally Automatic. She is a writer and editor by trade with a background in Japanese letters. Her work hinges on issues relating to gender and sexuality. In 2013 she co-founded MASSIVE GOODS: a lifestyle brand and arts agency representing queer erotica and feminist artists from Japan. MASSIVE has produced multiple volumes of graphic novels and a line of clothing and accessories. She has been published in BUST, Nylon, Slate, Publishers Weekly, the Village Voice, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and many others. She has translated and rewritten over twenty books.