The University of Calgary’s Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Program brings award-winning writer, and U of C alumna, Hiromi Goto to Calgary on Thursday, February 4 at 7:30 pm at The Nickle Arts Museum, U of C.

Goto, the 2009 - 2010 Writer-in-Residence at the University of Alberta, comes to Calgary courtesy of an exchange program between the U of C Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Program and the U of A Department of English. Each year, these institutions host the other school’s writer-in-residence for free public events.
Goto was born in Chiba-ken Japan, near Tokyo, and when she was three years old, her family immigrated to Canada. They lived on the west coast of British Columbia for eight years before moving to Nanton, Alberta, where her father fulfilled a dream of starting a mushroom farm.
Her novel, Chorus of Mushrooms, received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book in the Caribbean and Canadian region and was co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Award. Her second novel, The Kappa Child, was awarded the James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award. She has also written a children’s novel, The Water of Possibility, and a collection of short stories, Hopeful Monsters. Her most recent novel, Half World, was published by Penguin Canada, and is pending release in Indonesia, Poland, France and the U.S. Her latest publication, Wait Until Late Afternoon, is a collaborative long poem written with David Bateman. 
Goto reads from works in progress and her latest novel, Half World. The event is free. A reception follows the reading. For more information, contact 403.220.8177 or leej@ucalgary.ca.