Hiromi Goto is a Vancouver, B.C. fiction writer, cultural critic, arts advocate, youth organizer, and teacher of creative writing. Her first novel, Chorus of Mushrooms, received the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Caribbean and Canada) and was co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Award.

"Hiromi Goto expertly layers the experiences of a Japanese immigrant woman, her emotionally estranged daughter and her beloved granddaughter into a complex fabric and compelling story." -- Ottawa Citizen

"Such a love for words is evident in Chorus of Mushrooms, which contains passages of breathtaking beauty." -- The Globe & Mail

"Hiromi Goto, a Japanese-Canadian writer, has written a masterpiece of our times. The readability of the text is attributable to the author’s craftsmanship, and one feels like reading it over and over again." -- The Herald (Harare, Zimbabwe)

"Not only is Goto’s language precise and evocative, she has crafted a complex and poetic text that weaves realities and mysteries into a subtle pattern." -- Edmonton Journal