PUBLICATION HISTORY

Books: (Pending): Wait Until Late Afternoon, poetry, co-written with David Bateman, Frontenac House, Fall 2009.
Half World , YA novel, 233 pages, Penguin Canada, 2009. Viking US release 2010. Polish and French translations pending.
Hopeful Monsters, short story collection, 175 pages, Arsenal Pulp
Press, Spring 2004.
The Kappa Child, novel, 278 pages, Red Deer Press, Calgary, fall 2001.
The Water of Possibility, children’s novel, 319 pages, Coteau Books, Regina, fall 2001.
Chorus of Mushrooms, novel, 232 pages, NeWest Press, Edmonton, 1994; translation into Hebrew, Zmora Bitan Publishers Ltd., Israel, 1997; UK edition, Women’s Press, London, 1997. Edizioni Socrates, Italian translation 2005. Japanese translation pending.

Short fiction/Anthologies (selected):
• “The Hikikomori”, short story, pending, The Beastly Bride, anthology, ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Viking Press, NY, 2010.
• “Without Words”, nonfiction, pending, The Heart Does Break, anthology, ed. George Bowering and Jean Baird, Random House Canada, 2009.
• “The Sleep Clinic for Troubled Souls,” short story, The Future is Queer, anthology,ed. Richard Labonte, Lawrence Schimel, Arsenal Pulp Press, 2006.
• “Nostalgia”, short story, Nature, September 2005, London, UK.
• “Contes du sein”, short story translation (“Tales from the Breast”), Solaris 152. Automne 2004, Quebec.
• “Foxwife”, short story, The Faery Reel anthology, ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, Viking Press, NY, 2004
• “So Much”, short story in anthology, Certain Things About My Mother, ed. Susan
Musgrave, Annick Press, Toronto, ON, 2003
• “Home Stay”, short story in anthology, And Other Stories, ed. George Bowering, Talon Books, Powell River, BC. 2001.
• “From Across a River”, short story, This Magazine, Vol., Toronto, Winter 2001
• “Drift”, short story, Ms. magazine, Vol. IX, # 3, New York, spring 1999.
• “Final Examination, Canadian Culture 201”, short story in the anthology, “eye wuz here,” ed. Shannon Cooley, Douglas & McIntyre Ltd. Vancouver, fall 1996.
• “Tales from the Breast”, short story in Ms. magazine, New York, fall 1996.
• “Night”, short story in the anthology, Making a Difference, Canadian Multicultural Literature, ed. Smaro Kamboureli, Oxford University Press, Don Mills, fall, 1996.
• “Stinky Girl”, short story in the anthology, Due West, ed. Aritha van Herk, a joint
publication by NeWest Press, Turnstone Press and Coteau Books, fall 1996.
• “Tilting”, short story in the anthology, Boundless Alberta, ed. Aritha van Herk, NeWest Press, Edmonton, winter 1993.
• “Sparrows”, short story in Grain, Regina, fall 1992.
• “Grandmother’s Sea”, short story in blue buffalo, Calgary, summer 1992. Critical

Theory/Essays/Poetry
• “cryptic species”, poetry, Canadian Literature #196, University of British Columbia, 2008.
• “jagged”, poetry, Amerasia Journal Vol. 33, No. 2 Pacific Canada: Beyond the 49th Parallel, ed. Henry Yu and Guy Beauregard, UCLA Asian American Studies Centre, 2007.
• “writhe the psyche”, poetry, west coast line 44, 2004.
• “trophic cascade”, poetry, Public 30, Toronto, ON, Winter 2004.
• “Safari Dive”, poetry in anthology Ribsauce, ed. Taien Ng-Chan, Vehicule Press, Montreal QC. 2001.
• “Not Your Ethnic Body”, creative criticism in the anthology, Threshold, ed. Srdja Pavlovic, University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, fall 1999
• “Alien Texts, Alien Seductions: The Context of Colour Full Writing”, creative criticism in the anthology, Literary Pluralities, ed. Christl Verduyn, JCS-Broadview Press, Peterborough, winter, 1998
• “Not Your Ethnic Body” in The Chiba University Canadian Studies Forum, No.3/1997-98, Chiba, Japan
• “Osmosis”, prose poetry in Millennium Messages, an anthology of Asian Canadian
writing, ed. Kenda Gee & Wei Wong, Asian Canadian Writers Workshop Society of
Edmonton, spring 1998
• “Anatomy”, poetry, Prairie Fire, magazine Vol.18, No.4, Winnipeg, winter 1997
• “Translating the Self: Moving Between Cultures”, WestCoastLine, Vancouver, fall 1996
• “Woman (a)Broad”, Contemporary Verse 2, Vol.19, No.1, Winnipeg, summer 1996
• “The reversible skin”, poetry, Contemporary Verse 2, Winnipeg, winter 1994
• “the body politic”, poetry, WestCoastLine, No.13/14, Vancouver, spring 1994

Jillian Tamaki (Jacket Illustration)

Skim (with Mariko Tamaki). Groundwood Books, 2008.
Gilded Lilies. Conundrum Books, 2006.

Prizes:
Gold and Silver (2) medals, Society of Illustrators
2009 Doug Wright Award (Skim)
NYTimes Best Illustrated Books 2008 (Skim)
Gold Medal, National Magazine Awards
Gold Medal, Society of Publication Designers

Website:
www.jilliantamaki.com