Emi Sasagawa is a settler, immigrant and queer woman of colour, living and writing on the traditional, ancestral and stolen territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and Selilwitulh Nations.
Emi made the 2024 CBC Nonfiction Prize shortlist for Dad’s the Word and the 2025 CBC Short Story Prize shortlist for Lessons from a Peach. Her debut novel Atomweight, by Tidewater Press, was selected by CBC Books as one of the 86 works of Canadian fiction to read in the first half of 2023 and dubbed by The Tyee as “a propulsive exploration of growth and becoming.” The novel is an invitation for readers to reflect on their intersectional identity, through privilege and power, and oppression and marginalization, and reimagine how we may take up space and hold space for others.
LiterASIAN 2025 