Erica H Isomura is an essayist, poet and multi-disciplinary artist. Erica is a past recipient of ROOM Magazine’s Emerging Writer Award, winner of Briarpatch’s Writing in the Margins Contest for creative non-fiction, and was longlisted for the 2021 CBC Poetry Prize. Starting this fall, they will be an MFA candidate at the University of Guelph in Toronto. Erica is currently working on collections of essays, poetry, and a project bringing multi-generational racialized artists into conversation with one another.