The Capilano Review Spring 2026 Issue Launch

Roy Miki was a Vancouver-based poet, editor, critic, and teacher whose work profoundly shaped Canadian literary and cultural studies. A founding figure in Asian Canadian studies, his work explored identity, place, and citizenship through anti-racist theory, cultural studies, and poetics. Active in the Japanese Canadian Redress Movement of the 1980s, he co-authored Justice in Our Time (1991), documenting its achievements. Miki played key roles in major national cultural initiatives—including Writing Thru Race, the Racial Minority Writers’ Committee of the Writers’ Union of Canada, and the TransCanadas conference—and founded and edited the journal Line (later West Coast Line). A professor emeritus at Simon Fraser University, he was named a Member of the Order of Canada in 2006 for his contributions to arts writing and community advocacy.

Cindy Mochizuki creates multi-media installations, animation, drawing, audio fiction, performance, and community-engaged projects. She has exhibited her work in Canada, the United States, Australia, and Japan. Recent exhibitions include the Art Gallery at Evergreen, Kamloops Art Gallery, Prince Takamado Gallery, Nanaimo Art Gallery, and Surrey Art Gallery. She has created illustration and animation design for theatre companies including the Arts Club Theatre, Theatre Calgary, Theatre Replacement, and Little Onion Puppet. She received the  Mayor’s Arts Award in New Media and Film (2015) and the Jack and Doris Shadbolt Foundation for the Visual Arts VIVA Award (2020).