Erica writes, makes art, teaches with/in community
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Family History (2025)
mapping unknown futures (2025)
A vessel for the past/future (2024)
we missed you (2024-)
Talking With All The Lonely Trees (2024)
Family History (2024)
Grapes (2024)
Mouse House (2024)
untitled accordion (2024)
68 books I read (2024)
Mata Ashita: Talking Across Generations zine (2024)
Dee's Mental Health Bucket List zine (2024)
Foods we ate at the cottage (2023)
handmade notebooks (2012-)
collage & mixed-media
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ASAHI: Japanese Canadian Baseball Heroes (2026)
Let's Go Blue Jays series (2025)
Mini Collage Notebook series (2025)
Portraiture
comics
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Sifting (poetry comic)
Ducks to Watch Out For (comic)
Observations on a Sunday bike ride (comic)
Diary Comics
graphic design
installation
>
Talk To Your Neighbours (2020)
Altar for Qingming (2026)
live event drawings
mural design
printmaking
>
botanical prints
POETRY REMINDS ME TO INSIST ON ONE'S FREEDOM (2025)
Sumo Sundays (2025)
Year of the Dragon (2024)
sound
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From the Prairies to the Pacific Rim (2021)
writing
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poetry
excerpt of 'language is' on CBC Books (poetry)
'MOTION' in Vallum magazine (poetry)
'Haibun for Feb 19' in Nikkei Uncovered (poetry)
three poems on ArtsEverywhere.ca
non-fiction
'FOR THE DREAMERS' in Briarpatch (essay)
'Lessons For Future Ancestors: Reflections on Mentorship' for ROOM Magazine (essay)
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teaching portfolio
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artist talks, readings & other events
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haymarket poetry: heaven looks like us x the gate of memory
ensoku 2023: tashme
ensoku 2019: a gathering for young-ish japanese canadians
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NON-FICTION
"Anti-Field Guide to Japanese Canadian Foraging"
BRICK,
issue
117
, summer 2026 (ed. Orly Zebak)
"
Swimming Upstream against (Neo)colonialism: On Salmon Aquaculture Supremacy and the Decline of Sockeye in the Stó:lo
" in
The RAVEN Essays
,
eds. John Borrows, Dawn Hoogeveen, Max Ritts, and Sue Smitten
(University of Toronto Press, 2025)
“50 years on the land,” with Hiromi Goto,
Open Word
,
vol. 1, issue 2 (ed. Dani Neira)
“
Embracing water through poetry
,”
This Magazine,
Jan/Feb 2022 (ed. Shazia Hafiz Ramji)
"
In the Sacred Headwaters, There's Hope and Healing
"
for
The Tyee
(ed. Jackie Wong)
"
The life and hope in literature: the message behind a Japanese literary sensation, newly translated into English
"
for
Xtra Magazine
(ed. Paul Gallant)
“
Worthy of Being Called Whole,”
Write Magazine
,
summer 2021 (ed. Neil Aitkin)
"
Lessons for future ancestors: Reflections on mentorship with Hiromi Goto
" in
ROOM
Magazine
, online (ed. Isabella Wang)
"Pink + Green" in
ROOM
Magazine
, issue 43.2 (ed. Jessica Johns)
"
Urban farming poh-pohs
:
Chinese seniors garden project develops space for elders' food security
" for Vancouver Neighbourhood Food Networks
"
FOR THE DREAMERS
" in
Briarpatch
,
March/April 2019 (ed. Saima Desai)
“The History and the Struggle: My interview with Japanese Canadian lesbian activist elder Lily Shinde,”
ColorBloq
,
January 2018 issue, 2018
. (ed.
Chief Esparza)
© 2026 Erica H. Isomura
HOME
BIO
WORK
artist books & zines
>
Family History (2025)
mapping unknown futures (2025)
A vessel for the past/future (2024)
we missed you (2024-)
Talking With All The Lonely Trees (2024)
Family History (2024)
Grapes (2024)
Mouse House (2024)
untitled accordion (2024)
68 books I read (2024)
Mata Ashita: Talking Across Generations zine (2024)
Dee's Mental Health Bucket List zine (2024)
Foods we ate at the cottage (2023)
handmade notebooks (2012-)
collage & mixed-media
>
ASAHI: Japanese Canadian Baseball Heroes (2026)
Let's Go Blue Jays series (2025)
Mini Collage Notebook series (2025)
Portraiture
comics
>
Sifting (poetry comic)
Ducks to Watch Out For (comic)
Observations on a Sunday bike ride (comic)
Diary Comics
graphic design
installation
>
Talk To Your Neighbours (2020)
Altar for Qingming (2026)
live event drawings
mural design
printmaking
>
botanical prints
POETRY REMINDS ME TO INSIST ON ONE'S FREEDOM (2025)
Sumo Sundays (2025)
Year of the Dragon (2024)
sound
>
From the Prairies to the Pacific Rim (2021)
writing
>
poetry
excerpt of 'language is' on CBC Books (poetry)
'MOTION' in Vallum magazine (poetry)
'Haibun for Feb 19' in Nikkei Uncovered (poetry)
three poems on ArtsEverywhere.ca
non-fiction
'FOR THE DREAMERS' in Briarpatch (essay)
'Lessons For Future Ancestors: Reflections on Mentorship' for ROOM Magazine (essay)
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
teaching portfolio
EVENTS
artist talks, readings & other events
past community events
>
haymarket poetry: heaven looks like us x the gate of memory
ensoku 2023: tashme
ensoku 2019: a gathering for young-ish japanese canadians
MEDIA & INTERVIEWS
CONTACT