Joy Nozomi Kogawa CM OBC (born June 6, 1935) is a Canadian poet and novelist of Japanese descent.

[4] In 1954 she attended the University of Alberta, and in 1956, the Anglican Women's Training College [5] and The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.

The opera was also performed before the general public in the greater Vancouver area, Red Deer and Lethbridge, Alberta, Seattle, Washington, and Ottawa, Ontario, at the National War Museum.

Although the novel Obasan describes Japanese Canadian experiences, it is routinely taught in Asian American literature courses in the United States, due to its successful "integration of political understanding and literary artistry" and "its authentication of a pan-Asian sensibility.

Kogawa wrote the narrative for the augmented reality game East of the Rockies, produced by the National Film Board of Canada and released in 2019.

[21] They now are raising funds to renovate the house to increase accessibility and restore its appearance when Joy lived there in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

[23] Community members raised concern that the heritage application misled the City and the public by openly ignoring parts of the home's history.

On July 11, 2022, the agenda item covering the heritage status vote was removed in order to address the community's concerns.

They have hosted four writers to date: poet and editor Dr. John Asfour of Montreal in 2009, novelist and writing educator Nancy Lee of Richmond in 2010, creative non-fiction author Susan Crean in 2011, short-fiction author Deborah Willis in 2012, and PEN Canada writer-in-exile, novelist, editor, freelance journalist, and faculty member Ava Homa in 2013.