I am stunned to be able to announce that a short story of mine titled “Koro-Koro” will appear in the spring 2025 print issue of Ploughshares! Ploughshares was definitely a bucket-list publication for me due to their excellent literary taste.
This story will actually be the first chapter of Age of Blossoms, a historical-novel-in-progress about the Japanese population of Mayne Island, British Columbia, during the 1930s and 1940s. It plays with onomatopoeia in English and Japanese and celebrates the flora of the Pacific Northwest as it chronicles the thwarted romance between a Canadian girl and her nisei friend.