The Electrical Field (34 page)
For financial assistance, my gratitude to the Banff Centre for the Arts, the (now defunct) Explorations Program of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Japanese Canadian Redress Foundation, the Multiculturalism Program of the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Toronto Arts Council.
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ERRI SAKAMOTO WAS BORN
and raised in Toronto where she currently resides. She earned her master’s degree from New York University. She has been a scriptwriter for independent films, and has written extensively on Asian North American art. Her short fiction was included in
Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction. The Electrical Field
is her first novel. Her second novel,
One Hundred Million Hearts
, will be published by Knopf Canada in the fall of 2003.