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Born and raised on the west coast, Erica Hiroko Isomura is an essayist, poet, and multi-disciplinary artist. Her work explores relationships to land, politics, and yonsei (四世) Japanese/Cantonese identity.
Erica's writings have appeared in Canadian literary and independent magazines, including The Fiddlehead, ROOM Magazine, carte blanche, Vallum: Contemporary Poetry, Briarpatch, THIS, XtraMagazine.com, and others.
Erica is a recipient of ROOM magazine's Emerging Writer Award and won first prize in Briarpatch’s Writing In The Margins contest for creative non-fiction. Their poetry has been longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize and PRISM International's Grouse Grind Lit Prize.
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Erica is currently at work on a collection of personal essays and poetry, and a project bringing multi-generational, racialized artists into conversation with one another, supported by Canada Council for the Arts.