by Hiromi Goto
TORONTO / VANCOUVER
DECEMBER 2013 – JANUARY 2014
HIROMI GOTO
Hiromi Goto is a writer, editor, and writing mentor. She was born in Chiba-ken, Japan, and immigrated to Canada with her family in 1969. They lived on the west coast of British Columbia for eight years before moving to Nanton, Alberta. Chorus of Mushrooms was the 1995 recipient of the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize Best First Book Canada and Caribbean Region, and the co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Award. It has been translated and released in Israel, Italy and the UK. In 2001, she was awarded the James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award for The Kappa Child. Her first YA novel, Half World, received the 2010 Sunburst Award. Her other works include: a collection of short stories, Hopeful Monsters; a long poem co-written with David Bateman, Wait Until Late Afternoon; and for children and youth, the novel The Water of Possibility, and her most recent publication, Darkest Light. She currently lives in Vancouver, B.C.