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 >
      • 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)
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    • teaching portfolio
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    • 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
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Snail Mail Club

Snail Mail Club is exactly what it sounds like. A real life club where you receive mail from me! 
Think: postcards, poems, comics, stories, essays, videos, and more! 

At the moment a few projects I am working on/developing, include:
  • Book art for Carolyn Nakagawa's Asahi: Japanese Canadian Baseball Heroes, forthcoming with Heritage House
  • Fire Horse year (paper amulet, inspired by Chinese talismans) 
  • Qingming altar (installation project for Qingming, a.k.a. Ancestors Day)
  • Goodnight Minnie (a zine & paper animation project about my friend's chihuahua puppy named Minnie, inspired by Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown & illus. by Clement Hurd) 
  • Photo Book workshop for youth, to take place in spring 2026
  • Healing Justice workshop series with Nico (pilot series tbc) 
  • Farewell (a paper project related to 1942 displacement) 
  • Media project re: translingual poetics

I would love to develop the following, but currently do not have the time or $: 
  • place-making writing workshop
  • place-making bookmaking workshop
  • community flower map & zine
  • river collage across turtle island / community watershed map
  • figure out what to do next with SIFTING, the visual book I wrote and drew (i.e. how to get the story to the people who need it) 
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  • 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