Tamai Kobayashi is a Canadian writer, who won the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT writers in 2014. Kobayashi was co-editor with Mona Oikawa of All Names Spoken, an anthology of lesbian writing published by Sister Vision Press in 1992. She later published two short story collections, Exile and the Heart and Quixotic Erotic, before publishing her debut novel, Prairie Ostrich, in 2014. In addition, she wrote the short film Short Hymn, Silent War, directed by Charles Officer, and her short story "Panopte's Eye" appeared in the 2004 science fiction anthology So Long Been Dreaming. She was also a founding member of Asian Lesbians of Toronto. 

January 1st, 1965 in Japan (Age 59)