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Member Profile
Fiona Tinwei Lam
Fiona Tinwei Lam is the author of two books of poetry, Intimate Distances (finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Prize) and Enter the Chrysanthemum. Her poetry, nonfiction and fiction have been included in over twenty-four anthologies, including The Best Canadian Poetry 2010 and Force Field: An anthology of 77 BC Women Poets. Her poetry has twice been chosen for BC’s Poetry in Transit program. She is a co-editor of and contributor to the non-fiction anthology, Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood (McGill-Queen’s, 2008), as well as the editor of The Bright Well, a collection of contemporary Canadian poems about facing cancer (Leaf Press, 2011). Her video-poems have been screened locally and internationally. Her children’s book, The Rainbow Rocket, was published in 2013 with Oolichan Books. She currently teaches at Simon Fraser University (Continuing Studies), and is the poetry mentor for The Writers' Studio Online certificate program in creative writing. www.fionalam.net.
