Mina Ikemoto Ghosh
British-Japanese writer and illustrator, occasional translator, based in Surrey, UK.
An undersocialised and overeducated Heisei post-Lehman crisis-on-legs (according to her grandmother), she writes speculative fiction inspired by Japanese storytelling, draws sad monsters, and takes no prisoners.
2nd place Manga Jiman 2021/1st place Manga Jiman 2021 Yonkoma category/3rd place Manga Jiman 2019/Pathways Into Children’s Publishing alum 2019 – 2021/BA in Natural Sciences (Cambridge)/MSc in Japanese Studies (Oxford)/Most likely to survive a zombie apocalypse but just exactly how would be anybody’s guess 2013 (fellow misadventurer on midge-infested island).
She is represented by Lydia Silver at Darley Anderson Children’s Book Agency.