Erica Isomura
Erica H Isomura is a writer-artist who was born and raised beside the Stó:lō (Fraser River). Her creative practice incorporates written language, drawing, bookmaking, and mixed-media art. Erica’s work appears in Ruth Beer: Seep/Swell (Burnaby Art Gallery, 2025), The Gate of Memory: Poems by Descendants of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration (Haymarket Books, 2025), The RAVEN Essays (University of Toronto Press, 2025) and elsewhere. Erica is currently working on a visual book which explores her family history on B.C.’s north coast. Erica holds an MFA in creative writing from University of Guelph. She lives in Tkaronto/Toronto, ON.
Updated February 2025
Stories from This Author
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Feb. 20, 2025 • Erica Isomura , traci kato-kiriyama
Tkaronto/Toronto, Ontario-based writer-artist Erica Isomura lends us a moment of action captured in this month’s dynamic poem, “Haibun for February 19”—harkening back to efforts to shut down down detention centers in 2020, while cycling right to the present. This month, there are Day Of Remembrance commemorations all around the country and this selection reminds us to keep showing up now. The dream is still ahead of us—No Walls, indeed. This poem is featured in the forthcoming anthology, The Gate of …
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