Nathaniel “Nat” Guy is an engineer, translator, and amateur mycologist, currently serving as an officer in the Tokyo Mushroom Society. In 2020, he developed and released the app Japanese Mushroom Dictionary: Become a Japanese myco-expert! for Android and iPhone/iPad, a digital dictionary of all of the documented Japanese common names for mushrooms and their up-to-date scientific name equivalents. In addition to accomplishments such as “finding some of the largest Boletus edulis specimens anyone in his mushroom club had ever seen” and “stumbling upon an amazing patch of Pleurocybella porrigens back in 2015,” he has also worked as a Japanese-English translator on over a dozen video games and contributed software and GNC algorithms to a number of high-profile space missions.
He currently lives in Japan with his wife and two daughters.
