Suzanne Elki Yoko Hartmann is an editor and writer. Her work reflects her roots as a fourth-generation Japanese Canadian with German ancestry and explores meaningful coincidences, cultural memories and identity. She is the author of a children’s book, My Father’s Nose and lives in Toronto.
Suzanne holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of King’s College and a certificate in magazine publishing from Toronto Metropolitan University. Her hybrid of memoir and Japanese Canadian history, The Nail That Sticks Out: Growing Up Japanese Canadian in Postwar Toronto is being released by Dundurn Press in October 2024.