Hashimoto has only published one other book prior to The Crane Wife, which was her poetry chapbook called Reparation. Although she has published little, Hashimoto's books have been highly regarded and acclaimed and have showed her to be an emerging poet with great talent. As writer Shawn Wong says about Hashimoto (quoted on The Crane Wife book jacket), "[Her] voice claims that space with the pressure of each line in our ears." The Crane Wife was the co-winner of the sixteenth annual Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, launched by Story Line Press, in 2002.