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Masquerade, a story by Wiley Ho of North Vancouver, was selected by novelist Eileen Cook as the winning entry for BC-Yukon Short 2020, the Federation of BC Writers 4th annual short story contest. It appeared in WordWorks, the Fed's flagship magazine. Born in Taiwan, Ho moved with her family to Canada when she was eight. She identifies as "Generation 1.5, inhabiting that space between the here and there-ness of two countries, several cultures and multiple selves." She is working on a collection of short stories about her Taiwanese-Canadian childhood.
The memoir The Astronaut Children of Dunbar Street (Douglas & McIntyre $24.95) is an intimate geopolitical account of a family fractured by distance and borders, split between Taiwan and Canada. Author Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho, who identifies as Generation 1.5, explores the liminal spaces between cultures, languages and selves and is currently based in North Vancouver. The book illuminates the experience of countless “astronaut children” and “parachute kids”—children left unsupervised in Canada, the US, Australia or New Zealand after their immigrant parents returned overseas for work—a story largely absent from the literary landscape. Ho’s family emigrated from Taiwan to Canada in 1979, but a deep recession forced her parents to return to Taiwan, leaving young Wiley and her siblings behind in Vancouver with only two rules: study hard and stay out of trouble.
BOOKS:
The Astronaut Children of Dunbar Street (Douglas & McIntyre $24.95) 9781771624794
[BCBW 2025]
The memoir The Astronaut Children of Dunbar Street (Douglas & McIntyre $24.95) is an intimate geopolitical account of a family fractured by distance and borders, split between Taiwan and Canada. Author Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho, who identifies as Generation 1.5, explores the liminal spaces between cultures, languages and selves and is currently based in North Vancouver. The book illuminates the experience of countless “astronaut children” and “parachute kids”—children left unsupervised in Canada, the US, Australia or New Zealand after their immigrant parents returned overseas for work—a story largely absent from the literary landscape. Ho’s family emigrated from Taiwan to Canada in 1979, but a deep recession forced her parents to return to Taiwan, leaving young Wiley and her siblings behind in Vancouver with only two rules: study hard and stay out of trouble.
BOOKS:
The Astronaut Children of Dunbar Street (Douglas & McIntyre $24.95) 9781771624794
[BCBW 2025]
