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Kobayashi, Tamai

  Born in Japan in 1965 and raised in Canada, Tamai Kobayashi is a writer, songwriter, and videomaker who lives in Toronto. Her writing has appeared in a number of lesbian anthologies and literary magazines. Kobayashi is one of the founding members of Asian Lesbians of Toronto. Her story "Panopte's Eye" is an excerpt from a novel-in-progress.

 

Poetry

All Names Spoken: Poetry and Prose

Co-author, Monika Oikawa.
Toronto: Sister Vision, 1992.

Publisher's Synopsis

All Names Spoken is an arresting and diverse collection. Extremely provocative and uninhibited, it's pages shimmer with beautiful imagery and sensual, sexy eroticism. The partnership and compatibility of Kobayashi's and Oikawa's writing is made all the more effective by their difference of style and perception. This has resulted in the book's rich and affective texture, a wonderful gathering of complimentary individuality.


Exile And The Heart book cover

Fiction

Exile And The Heart: Lesbian Fiction

Toronto: Women's Press, 1998.

 


Quixotic Erotic book cover

 

 

Fiction

Quixotic Erotic

Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2003.

Publisher's Synopsis (from its website)

Step into a world of dream, of fantasy, of erotic tales spiked with poetic imagery. Step into Quixotic Erotic, the new collection of lesbian erotica from Tamai Kobayashi.
Like being awakened from a dream by a soft, sensuous caress, the stories in Quixotic Erotic stimulate the senses. From a birthday surprise to a torrid office dalliance, these tales roam the worlds of women loving women.


 

Anthology (Short stories)

"Panopte's Eye ." In So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy, ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan, 95-106. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004.

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