MAKOTO SHINKAI is the hugely popular and multi-award winning anime filmmaker of Your Name. and Weathering With You.
NB: changes have been made to the above author biography which was previously stated incorrectly.
Ginny Tapley Takemori is the translator of Convenience Store Woman and other prize-winning Japanese fiction. She lives in rural Japan.
She and Her Cat is inspired by Shinkai's praised anime and written by Nagakawa, and will be published around the world.