Erin Niimi Longhurst is a British/Japanese author in London and New York.
Her work has been featured in The Guardian, Time Out, the BBC, Vogue, Stylist, El Mundo, Elle Vietnam, Reader’s Digest, and MarthaStewart.com.
She is the author of Japonisme (HarperCollins, 2018), Omoiyari (HarperCollins, 2020), and A Little Book of Japanese Contentments (Chronicle Books, 2018). Her work is influenced by her dual heritage, and focuses on her passion for food (having completed the Leiths School of Food and Wine Essentials Course), Ikigai (finding purpose), Ikebana (flower arranging), and Shinrinyoku (forest bathing).
Otsumami is her weekly substack blog featuring little bites of Japanese culture.
She is a member of the Guild of Food Writers.
In June 2022, she was selected as the winning author for the borough of Hackney for her short story ‘The Kettle’, for Spread the Word’s City of Stories anthology.
In 2021, her work was selected for the Kendal Mountain Literature Festival. In 2020, she was recognised as one of the Flaura 50 ‘women championing wellness’.
She is currently in East London, where she lives with her husband and their sausage dog Milhouse. She is currently working on her third book, due to be published in September 2024 by HarperCollins.
