Roy Miki

Bio:

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.