Leslie Shimotakahara

Leslie Shimotakahara's memoir, The Reading List, won the Canada-Japan Literary Prize, and her fiction has been shortlisted for the KM Hunter Artist Award. Her novel After the Bloom received a starred review from Booklist and is Bustle's number one choice in " 50 Books To Read With Your Book Club," while Kirkus Review praised Red Oblivion for displaying " virtuosity in this subtle deconstruction of one family's tainted origins." She completed a PhD in English at Brown University. She and her...See more

Leslie Shimotakahara's memoir, The Reading List, won the Canada-Japan Literary Prize, and her fiction has been shortlisted for the KM Hunter Artist Award. Her novel After the Bloom received a starred review from Booklist and is Bustle's number one choice in " 50 Books To Read With Your Book Club," while Kirkus Review praised Red Oblivion for displaying " virtuosity in this subtle deconstruction of one family's tainted origins." She completed a PhD in English at Brown University. She and her husband live in Toronto's west end. See less