Publications

books

Kyo Maclear’s highly praised first novel is The Letter Opener, a finalist for the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada 2007 First Novel Award and the 2008 Evergreen Award. It was first published by HarperCollins Canada under the Phyllis Bruce imprint in Spring 2007, and released in paperback by Harper Perennial in Spring 2008.

She is also the author of Beclouded Visions: Hiroshima-Nagasaki and the Art of Witness, published by the State University of New York Press in December 1998. The book was praised by The National Post as an “original and philosophical treatise” and by Books in Canada for its “articulate and elegant prose”.

She is co-author with artist Kathryn Walter of Private Investigators: Undercover in Public Spaces, published by Banff Centre Press, which explores tourism and performance art.

Her essays and fiction have been anthologized in: Witness & Memory: The Discourse of Trauma (Routledge); Like Mangoes in July: The Work of Richard Fung (Insomniac Press); ReMembering the Body (Hatje Cantz); Intersecting Circles: The Voices of Hapa Women in Poetry and Prose (Bamboo Ridge Press); and Taking Risks: Literary Journalism from the Edge (Banff Centre Press)

Her first children’s book, Spork (Kids Can Press), received a starred review from Kirkus. A second picture book is forthcoming in 2011. kyomaclearkids.ca

short fiction and poetry

Kyo’s short fiction has appeared in literary journals and magazines including: Tule Review, Brain Child, West Coast Line, Fireweed, absinthe, Tessera, Amerasia Journal, Fuse, and the Capilano Review.

In 2004, her story “Stump” was short listed for The Great Canadian Literary Hunt by This Magazine.

essays, reviews and articles

Kyo’s essays, reviews and articles have been published in Brick, Canadian Art, The Globe and Mail, Saturday Night, This Magazine, Fuse, Prefix Photo, Azure, Asia Art Pacific, C Magazine and Western Front Magazine.

She was the monthly visual arts columnist for Toronto Life between 1997–1999.

Kyo has garnered several accolades for her essays including: a Banff Centre Arts Journalism Fellowship (1997), a National Magazine Award nomination (2001), and a Leab Exhibition Catalogue Award (2005)

edited works

In addition to her own writing, she has also had the privilege of editing many wonderful art, architectural, and design monographs, including:

Andrew Rucklidge Paintings 2005-2007 (Christopher Cutts, 2008); Incomplete Manifesto for Growth by Bruce Mau (BMD, 2007); Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg: A Monograph (Birkhauser, 2003); Aiko Suzuki: Selected Works 1973–2003 (Gendai Gallery, 2003); Tokyo Think Zone Life Style (Mori Gallery, 2002); Mark di Suvero (Gagosian Gallery, 2001); Pop Art: The John and Kimiko Powers Collection (Gagosian Gallery, 2001); Lepanto: Cy Twombly (Gagosian Gallery, 2001); and Life Style by Bruce Mau (Phaidon, 2000).