meet our writers
A sneak peek at the Japanese Canadian artists behind the anthology.
Contributors:
Creative Nonfiction
George Doi, Andrea Mariko Grant, Suzanne Hartmann, Jay Irizawa, Erica H. Isomura, Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa, Kimiko Karpoff, Mary Kitagawa, Joy Kogawa, Kirsten Emiko McAllister, Art Miki, Emiko Morita, Mona Oikawa, Lily Yuriko Shinde, Candie Tanaka, Kyle Yakashiro, Lillian Yano Blakey
Fiction
Angela Marian May, Sarah Ariza-Verrault, Lynne Kutsukake, Julie Tamiko Manning, Raymond K. Nakamura, Leslie Shimotakahara, Darcy Tamayose
Poetry
Miki Dare, Laura K. Fukumoto, Kyla Jamieson, Kelty Miyoshi McKinnon, Sachiko Murakami, Carolyn Nakagawa, anaïs peterson, P. Sakamoto, Hanako Teranishi, Anne Watanbe, Megan Kiyoko Wray
In this groundbreaking anthology, dozens of Japanese Canadian authors explore questions of place and memory in the aftermath of their or their families’ wartime dispossession and displacement.
In these brave and beautiful stories, essays, and poems, these writers consider their proximity to and distance from times and places lived and imagined, as well as what it might mean to carry and caretake memory.
Representing writers from across the country and from multiple generations, this anthology—salient, urgent, and novel in its selected work—is a remarkable event in Japanese Canadian writing.