Hiromi Goto
Hiromi Goto (born 1966) is a Canadian novelist. Born in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, her family emigrated to Canada in 1969, settling in British Columbia. She studied at the University of Calgary and now lives in Burnaby, British Columbia. Goto's first novel, Chorus of Mushrooms (1994), won a 1995 Commonwealth Writers Prize and was co-winner of the 1996 Canada-Japan Book Award. Her novel The Kappa Child won the Tiptree Award for gender-bending science fiction. From September 2008 to May 2009, Goto was the Writer in Residence at Simon Fraser University.