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Hiromi Goto

Hiromi Goto is the award-winning author of many books for youth and adults. Her adult novel, Chorus of Mushrooms (1994) was the recipient of the regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book as well as co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Award. Her second adult novel, The Kappa Child, was awarded the James Tiptree Jr. Award. Hopeful Monsters was her first collection of short stories and in 2009, she co-wrote, with David Bateman, her first book of poetry, Wait Until Late Afternoon. More recently her YA novel, Half World, was winner of the 2010 Sunburst Award and the Carl Brandon Parallax Award and was longlisted for the IMPAC-Dublin Literary Award. Her latest YA publication is Darkest Light. Hiromi is also a mentro at Simon Fraser University's The Writer's Studio, an editor, and monther of two grown children. She is at work on graphic novels and short stories.

In honour of its 20th anniversary, NeWest Press released a special edition of her seminal Chorus of Mushrooms in Spring 2014.

Books by Hiromi Goto

New Suns 2

Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

edited by Nisi Shawl
by (author) Daniel H. Wilson, K. Tempest Bradford, Darcie Little Badger, Geetanjali Vandemark, John Chu, Nghi Vo, Tananarive Due, Alex Jennings, Karin Lowachee, Saad Hossain, Hiromi Goto, Minsoo Kang, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Malka Older, Kathleen Alcalá, Christopher Caldwell & Jaymee Goh
foreword by Walter Mosley
afterword by Grace Dillon

Shadow Life

by (author) Hiromi Goto
illustrated by Ann Xu

Chorus of Mushrooms

by (author) Hiromi Goto
read by Brenda Kamino & Stephany Seki

New Suns

Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color

edited by Nisi Shawl
by (author) Rebecca Roanhorse, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Darcie Little Badger, Tobias S. Buckell, Minsoo Kang, Jaymee Goh, Indrapramit Das, E. Lily Yu, Karin Lowachee, Kathleen Alcalá, Steven Barnes, Chinelo Onwual, Alex Jennings, Alberto Yáñez, Anil Menon, Andrea Hairston & Hiromi Goto
foreword by LeVar Burton

Luminous Ink

Writers on Writing in Canada

edited by Tessa McWatt, Rabindranath Maharaj & Dionne Brand
contributions by Margaret Atwood, Madeleine Thien, M.G. Vassanji, Lawrence Hill, Pascale Quiviger, Nino Ricci, Sheila Fischman, Heather O'Neill, Camilla Gibb, Eden Robinson, Lee Maracle, Rawi Hage, Michael Helm, Lisa Moore, Rita Wong, Hiromi Goto, George Elliott Clarke, Nicole Brossard, Judith Thompson, David Chariandy, Richard Van Camp, Marie-Hélène Poitras, Stephen Henighan, Greg Hollingshead, Michael Ondaatje & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

The Kappa Child

by (author) Hiromi Goto

Darkest Light

Half World Series

by (author) Hiromi Goto

Darkest Light

Half World Series

by (author) Hiromi Goto

Half World

by (author) Hiromi Goto

Wait Until Late Afternoon

by (author) David Bateman & Hiromi Goto

Hopeful Monsters

Stories

by (author) Hiromi Goto

Water of Possibility

by (author) Hiromi Goto