Hiromi, a graduate of the University of Calgary, is an award-winning author whose short stories and critical writing have won world wide acclaim. She now resides in British Columbia. She is much in demand as a speaker at conferences in Europe, North America, Japan, and Great Britain and has lectured a post secondary institutions locally, nationally and internationally.

In Progress:

Hiromi is working on a collection of short stories and a new novel.

Forthcoming:

Half World
(Penguin Canada)

Novels:

The Kappa Child
(Red Deer Press, 2001)

Chorus of Mushrooms
(Women's Press, UK 1997; Zmora Bitan Publishers Ltd. 1997;
NeWest Press, 1994)

Short Stories:

Hopeful Monsters
(Aresenal Pulp Press, 2004)

Contributor to Certain Things About My Mother
(Annick Press, 2004)

Awards:

• Chorus of Mushrooms was the 1995 recipient of the Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best First Book Canada and the Caribbean Region and the co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Award

Hiromi is the subject of an ACCESS Network documentary
A Woman I Know.