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Caroline Wong came to Canada from China in her early teens and lived in Vancouver's Chinatown with her family from the 1950s to the early 1960s. She is a graduate of SFU's Writer's Studio and her work has appeared in Grain, Prism International, Rice Paper, the Prose Poem Project, and West Coast Line. She currently lives in Burnaby.
Wong's poems and stories follow the interior journeys of a transplanted woman and she self-describes as "a dreamer, a story teller, a conjuror, a jester, a realist." Her journeys often begin with a physical landscape: a summit, an old cannery, a hospital room, a flower, a feast. From these real, remembered and/or imagined objects she weaves in and out of her early childhood in a village, growing up in an adopted land (Canada), adulthood and all the confusing, sweet and bitter stages in between.
In Primal Sketches (Signature Editions $17.95) Wong writes of hiking in B.C., walking Spain's Camino de Santiago, fleeing the Yangtze River in China, loss, death and hope. She also references two ancient Chinese poets, Li Po and Li Qing Zhao, both of whom were exiles.
BOOKS
Primal Sketches (Signature Editions, 2021) 17.95 9781773240862
[BCBW 2021]
Wong's poems and stories follow the interior journeys of a transplanted woman and she self-describes as "a dreamer, a story teller, a conjuror, a jester, a realist." Her journeys often begin with a physical landscape: a summit, an old cannery, a hospital room, a flower, a feast. From these real, remembered and/or imagined objects she weaves in and out of her early childhood in a village, growing up in an adopted land (Canada), adulthood and all the confusing, sweet and bitter stages in between.
In Primal Sketches (Signature Editions $17.95) Wong writes of hiking in B.C., walking Spain's Camino de Santiago, fleeing the Yangtze River in China, loss, death and hope. She also references two ancient Chinese poets, Li Po and Li Qing Zhao, both of whom were exiles.
BOOKS
Primal Sketches (Signature Editions, 2021) 17.95 9781773240862
[BCBW 2021]
