Region: ONToronto
Generation: Yonsei
Born 1966, Toronto, Ont.
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Bio
Suzanne Elki Yoko Hartmann is a Toronto-based editor, writer and fourth-generation Japanese Canadian with German ancestry. She’s served as the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre newsletter editor, Japanese Social Services administrator and Nikkei Voice managing editor. Since 2022, she divides her time a board member between the Toronto Chapter of the National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC) and Toronto Japanese Garden Club.
Suzanne holds a master of fine arts (MFA) in creative non-fiction from University of King’s College, a certificate in magazine publishing and a bachelor’s degree in Radio & Television Arts from Toronto Metropolitan University.
Her MFA project The Nail That Sticks Out:Reflections on the Postwar Japanese Canadian Community
was awarded the NAJC Endowment Fund’s 2020 SEAD grant and selected for the Writers’ Union of Canada 2021 BIPOC Writers Connect mentorship conference. An excerpt was published in Return July 2021 by Mata Ashita Japanese Canadian writers’ circle. She received a 2022 writer’s grant from the Toronto Arts Council to complete the book. Suzanne also read from the work at Draft Reading Series, Mixed Tongues August 2023 season funded by the Ontario Arts Council. The book was published by Dundurn Press in October 2024.
