Muriel Kitagawa
Tsukiye Muriel Kitagawa was senior editor for The New Age, the
first newspaper to express the Nisei (second-generation Japanese
Canadian) perspective and provide an outlet for that generation’s
expressive thought and literary writing. In 1938 she began writing
for The New Canadian, where she was a regular contributor under
several pen names. With four young children, including twins born
right in the middle of the uprooting of the entire B.C. Japanese
Canadian community, Muriel and her family moved to Toronto to join
her brother Wesley Fujiwara, who was attending university there in
June of 1942.
Roy Miki
Roy Miki is a writer, poet, critic and professor emeritus at Simon
Fraser University. He has taught and written about the work of
bpNichol for many years and was the editor of Pacific Windows:
Collected Poems of Roy K. Kiyooka, which won the 1997 Poetry Award
from the Association of Asian American Studies. His major
bibliographic study, A Record of Writing: An Annotated and
Illustrated Bibliography of George Bowering, won the Gabriel Roy
award from the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures as
the best book on Canadian Literature for 1991. Miki lives in
Vancouver. Miki is also the editor of This Is My Own: Letters to
Wes and Other Writings on Japanese Canadians (1985), Tracing the
Paths: Reading‚ Writing The Martyrology (1988), Meanwhile: The
Critical Writings of bpNichol (2001) and Redress: Inside the
Japanese Canadian Call for Justice (2004), as well as co-editor
with Cassandra Kobayashi of Justice in Our Time: The Japanese
Canadian Redress Settlement (1991).
“The publication of This Is My Own means that [Kitagawa’s]
passionate loyalty, her rage, haven’t been left to moulder in the
grave. What a relief that is. What a cause for celebration.”
— Joy Kogawa
“This collection is skillfully woven together.”
— Amerasia Review
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