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Erica H. Isomura is an artist, writer, and community educator. Their expansive creative practice combines writing, bookmaking, paper art, eco-art, drawing, printmaking, collage and mixed-media with critical diasporic and land-based storytelling. Erica is a "self-taught" artist who credits her mom, aunties, and 婆婆 as her first teachers in contemporary craft and art.

Erica has exhibited work at Gallery 1065, Trampoline Hall, Glad Day Books, and Someone Editions in Toronto. Erica is the illustrator of the non-fiction children's book Asahi: Japanese Canadian Baseball Heroes by author Carolyn Y. Nakagawa.

Erica's poetry and prose appear in BRICK, The Gate of Memory anthology: Poems by Descendants of Wartime Incarceration eds. Brynn Saito & Brandon Shimoda (Haymarket Books, 2025), Ruth Beer: SEEP|SWELL (Burnaby Art Gallery, 2025), The RAVEN Essays (University of Toronto Press, 2025), and elsewhere. Erica's work was selected as winner of Briarpatch's Writing in the Margins contest for creative non-fiction and received ROOM Magazine's Emerging Writers Award.

Erica earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph and a B.A. in Social Sciences with minors in Environmental and Indigenous studies from the University of Victoria. Born and raised at the mouth of the Stó:lō (Fraser River), Erica currently lives on the shores of Lake Ontario.