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.

This story will be the first chapter of Age of Blossoms, a Rashomon-like historical-novel-in-progress about the Japanese population of Mayne Island, British Columbia, from the early 1930s until their expulsion in 1942. The story plays with onomatopoeia in English and Japanese and celebrates the wild landscape of the Pacific Northwest as it chronicles the thwarted romance between a Canadian girl and her nikkei friend.