Kerri Sakamoto
WRITER/MENTOR
Kerri Sakamoto was born in Toronto to a Japanese Canadian family. Her first novel, The Electrical Field, was a finalist for a slew of awards, including a Governor General’s Literary Award, and won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book. She has since published two additional novels: One Hundred Million Hearts and The Floating City, which won the Canada-Japan Literary Award and was a finalist for the Toronto Book Awards in 2018. Sakamoto lives in Toronto.
Kerri is a Short Form 2006 mentor.
Selected Works
Descriptive Exercises
I’ve often picked up a stray object, tossed it into the middle of the room and asked participants to write i... Read More
Death in an Evacuation Camp of One Who Never Saw Japan
When they remembered his death for every year after, every 16th of November, they would remember his fac... Read More
The Man Who Built Walls and Tore Them Down
It was the first time I’d sat down with Frank since moving out five years earlier. More might have passed were ... Read More