About the Author
Jen Sookfong Lee
Jen Sookfong Lee was born and raised in Vancouver's East Side, and she now lives with her son in North Burnaby. Her books include The Conjoined, nominated for International Dublin Literary Award and a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize; The Better Mother, a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award; The End of East; Gentlemen of the Shade; and Chinese New Year. Jen teaches at The Writers' Studio Online with Simon Fraser University, edits fiction for Wolsak & Wynn and co-hosts the literary podcast Can't Lit.
Vancouver-based writer Jen Sookfong Lee embraces personal lyric in her poetry debut with The Shadow List (Wolsak & Wynn), an intoxicating collection vivid and frank, that calls us to question the politics of who gets to choose and who doesn't. In language that is gripping ... Read more
This National Poetry Month on All Lit Up we bring you Poetry Express, a month-long series dedicated to poetry as a mode of travel—anywhere, anytime. In a year of isolation, poetry, more than ever, is connection, expression, and reflection. Poetry takes us places, both undiscovered ... Read more
Here to start off Read the Provinces—our celebration of authors across Canada—is BC-based author Peggy Herring. Below Peggy tells us about the fascinating research behind her novel Anna, Like Thunder (Brindle & Glass Publishing), a fresh retelling of the story of St. ... Read more
We consulted the stars (internet) and our shelves to bring you book recommendations based (sort of) on your zodiac sign.
Keith Maillard’s Twin Studies (Freehand Books) is a novel about the intertwined stories between three sets of twins that author Jen Sookfong Lee calls "deliberately written, fiercely inventive, and unflinching." Set during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Twin Studies ... Read more
In 2017, Canada’s oldest feminist literary journal, Room magazine launched the literary festival Growing Room as a space to celebrate diverse Canadian writers and artists run entirely as a labour of love. And this year is no exception. Running from March 1 - 4 in Mount ... Read more
Featuring hand-picked selections by authors we admire for all the readers on your holiday gift list, our Gift Guide Week is as lit as it gets. Today, poet and short story writer (and maybe one of the funniest people out there), Dina Del Bucchia shares five choice titles for ... Read more
Our exploits this week including literary recluses, war books, and more. Read on to check out top 10s, interviews, and book recommendations.
Happy birthday to us! Usually, we ring in our big day with a look ahead to books we can't wait to read in Fall, but since we've already tackled that, we're counting to three with:
This week we celebrated Asian Heritage Month, learned about "sudden fiction," and remembered our love of John Cusack circa High Fidelity.
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