Shawne Yukimi MacIntyre is a writer of children’s literature, fiction and non-fiction.

She’s represented by Bridgette Kam at Westwood Creative Artists.

Her current project is a Middle Grade novel which tells a story of friendship, justice and judo from the confines of a World War II Japanese-Canadian internment camp, in 1943. She gratefully acknowledges support from the Community Fund of the Japanese Canadian Legacies Society for this project. She also wishes to thank the National Association of Japanese Canadians for funding support of this same project.

Her first Middle Grade novel was a finalist for the CANSCAIP Writing for Children’s Competition, 2023, and was selected for the Annick Press Mentorship Program in Fall, 2023. She was the Writer in Residence at the Historic Joy Kogawa House (Vancouver) for January, 2024. For related events, see here.

Her writing has been published in WordWorks Magazine, Emerge 21, Ricepaper Magazine, Montecristo Magazine, and across various blogs.

In a previous iteration, she was an accredited fine art appraiser, valuing private, public and corporate collections for insurance, resale and other purposes. A major nerd about anything related to the Japan’s Edo Period (1604-1868), she’s also taught courses on the art of Edo Japan at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University.

About

Shawne Yukimi MacIntyre a Canadian writer of Japanese and Scottish descent and calls the Pacific Northwest of Canada, home. She explores ancestry, folklore, and mixed-ness in her fiction, non-fiction and occasional poetry; she’s also a communications professional. S. Yukimi is a graduate of The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University and has a Master of Museum Studies degree (University of Toronto) which informs her folklore-related writing.

She’s a member of the Federation of BC Writers, the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the Japanese-Canadian writing circle Mata Ashita and a private writer’s group. When not writing, she’s reading, traveling with her family, wishing she was swimming in a lake or thinking about the perfect gin and tonic.