Published Works

Tamayose, Darcy. Ezra’s Ghosts, short story collection, Edmonton: NeWest Press, 2022.
_____. Les fantômes d’Ezra, French language translation of Ezra’s Ghosts, Montreal: Leméac Éditeur, forthcoming 2025.
_____. Katie Be Quiet, youth novel, Saskatoon: Coteau Books, 2008.
_____. Odori, mainstream novel, Toronto: Cormorant Books, 2007.

Refereed Contributions: Conference Presentations

“Okinawan Canadian Kika Nisei Experience: Battle of Okinawa,” 24th Annual Harvard East Asia Society Conference—Moving Bodies: Mobility and Control Across East Asia, February 2021, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University.

Non-Refereed Contributions: Public Presentations

Toronto Heliconian Literary Lecture Series, "Multi-praxis: Ezra's Ghosts, Research, Graphic Design, and Writing," presentation for members in Canada, UK, and US (April 2024)

University of British Columbia Rethinking Global Japanese Studies International Symposium, “Diasporic Dialogues and (Dis)connections,” panel discussant wi Drs. Rebecca Hausler (Queensland University, Australia) & Andrew Leong (University of California Berkeley), Vancouver, Canada (March 2024)

“Okinawan Canadian Oral History Research and the Writing Process of Ezra’s Ghosts,” American Literature Studies, presentation and discussion with professors and students, November 2023, Nishihara, Okinawa: University of the Ryukyus.

“Ezra’s Ghosts: Writing the Speculative Fiction and Real Landscapes,” MFA Writing Program Speaker Series, September 25, 2023, Halifax: University of King's College.

“Southern Alberta Okinawan Diaspora (1907-present): The Kika Nisei Journey of Naoko Shimabukuro,” NNMCC Presents, February 8, 2023, Burnaby: Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre.

“Ezra’s Ghosts: Space and Place Intersection of Academic and Fiction Writing,” Thin Air 2022, September 20, 2022, Winnipeg: Winnipeg International Writers’ Festival.

“Southern Alberta Okinawan Diaspora (1907-present): The Kika Nisei Journey of Naoko Shimabukuro,” Mata Ashita: Intergenerational writing circle for Japanese Canadians, January 8, 2022, Vancouver: Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop Society.

“Southern Alberta Okinawan Diaspora (1907-Present): A Kika Nisei Journey,” 3rd Annual Golden Maple Reception Keynote speaker, September 2020, Lethbridge: Nikka Yuko Japanese Gardens.

“Southern Alberta Okinawan Diaspora (1907-present): The Kika Nisei[1] Journey of Naoko Shimabukuro,” Intersectionalities of Race, Colonialism & Gender Transnational Master’s Class Oral History, March 2020, Lethbridge: University of Lethbridge and Plymouth University, UK.

“Okinawan Canadian Migration and the Writing Process of Odori,” Center for Okinawan Studies, April 2016, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.

“Okinawan Canadian Migration,” Pacific and North/South American Research Project “Human Migration and the Twenty-first Century Global Society, February 2012, Nishihara, Okinawa: University of the Ryukyus.

“Odori and the Writing Process,” Community Presentation, February 2012, Nishihara, Okinawa: University of the Ryukyus.

“Odori as Textbook and On Writing,” Dr. John Price Asian Studies Spring 2011 Semester Lecture, Victoria: University of Victoria.

“Odori,” University of Lethbridge Japan Studies International Conference: Keynote speaker, September 2009, Lethbridge: University of Lethbridge.

Forthcoming Contributions

“Your Oral History Visual Project,” Oral History Summer Institute, graduate student panel moderator with Centre for Oral History and Tradition speaker panel: Drs. Jenna Bailey, Carly Adams (University of Lethbridge), and Darren Aoki (University of Plymouth), June 13 2024, University of Lethbridge.

[1] Kika nisei is a second generation Canadian-born citizen who travels to Japan and returns to Canada.
[2] Nisei means second generation in the Japanese language.