Hiromi Goto

HIROMI GOTO was born in Chiba-ken, Japan, and immigrated to Canada with her family in 1969. Her first novel, Chorus of Mushrooms , examined the immigration experience and was the 1995 regional winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book and co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Award. She is also the author of a children's novel, The Water of Possibility , another adult novel, The Kappa Child , which was the 2001 recipient of the James Tiptree Jr., Award, the short story...See more

HIROMI GOTO was born in Chiba-ken, Japan, and immigrated to Canada with her family in 1969. Her first novel, Chorus of Mushrooms , examined the immigration experience and was the 1995 regional winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book and co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Award. She is also the author of a children's novel, The Water of Possibility , another adult novel, The Kappa Child , which was the 2001 recipient of the James Tiptree Jr., Award, the short story collection Hopeful Monsters , the Sunburst Award-winning Half World and, most recently, the acclaimed Darkest Light . Visit her at hiromigoto.com or on Twitter @hinganai. See less