Mariko Tamaki is a Toronto writer and performer with an avid
interest in freaks, weirdos, and other fabulous forms of human
behaviour.
Skim is illustrated by her cousin Jillian Tamaki.
In her spare time, Mariko is a columnist for Kiss Machine and Herizons, and a graduate student in Linguistic Anthropology at the
University of Toronto where she studies language, performance, and
gender.
