HIROMI GOTO

The Kootenay School of Writing Presents:

HIROMI GOTO
Reading at Spartacus Books
Friday, April 7th, 8:00 PM

Spartacus Books is at
319 West Hastings
Admission: 3/5$

Co-Sponsored by The Canada Council for the Arts

Author Bio:
Hiromi Goto is the author of Chorus of Mushrooms, regional
winner of the Commonwealth Writer's Prize Best First Book
and the co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Award ((NeWest
Press 1995). She has also published a children's novel, The
Water of Possibility (Coteau Books 2001) and a second adult
novel, The Kappa Child (Red Deer Press 2001), which received
the 2001 James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award for a short story
or novel that expands gender roles in science fiction and
fantasy. Her most recent book, Hopeful Monsters, s a
collection of short stories (Arsenal Pulp Press 2004). A
young adult horror fantasy is forthcoming from Penguin
Canada. Born and raised in Alberta, she currently lives in
Burnaby, BC.