Roy Miki

Roy Miki is a Canadian poet, critic, activist, editor, and educator. Born in 1942 on a sugar beet farm in Manitoba, where his second-generation Japanese-Canadian parents were forcibly relocated and interned by the Canadian government during WWII, Miki was instrumental in the redress movement in the 1980s. He earned a B.A. from the University of Manitoba, an M.A. from Simon Fraser University, and a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. He moved to Vancouver in 1967 and taught at SFU for more than thirty years. He is the author of six volumes of poetry, including Surrender which won the 2001 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. Miki is the author of A Record of Writing: An Annotated and Illustrated Bibliography of George Bowering (1989), Broken Entries: Race, Subjectivity, Writing(1998), Redress: Inside the Japanese-Canadian Call for Justice (2004), among many others. Miki was made a Member of the Order of Canada (2006) and received the Gandhi Peace Award for the truth, justice, and human rights work of his redress work. He was also made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2007) and a Member of the Order of British Columbia (2009).