Jen Sookfong Lee
Jen Sookfong Lee is a Canadian broadcaster and novelist. A radio personality for CBC Radio One in Vancouver, British Columbia, she contributes a regular literary segment called "Westcoast Words" to On the Coast and All Points West, the network's local programs in Vancouver and Victoria, and is also a regular contributor to the national network program The Next Chapter.[1] In the CBC's national Canada Reads competition in 2009, she defended Brian Francis's novel Fruit.
Her published works include the novels The End of East (2007) and The Better Mother (2011),[1] the young adult novel Shelter (2011) and the short story "Chill, Hush" in the anthology TOK: Writing the New City (2009).
She and her husband reside in East Vancouver, British Columbia.
She served on the jury for the 2011 Dayne Ogilvie Prize, a literary award for emerging LGBT writers in Canada, selecting Farzana Doctor as that year's winner.[2]
References
- 1 2 "On Writing, with Jen Sookfong Lee". Open Book Toronto, June 1, 2011.
- ↑ "Farzana Doctor to receive Dayne Ogilvie Grant". Quill & Quire, June 1, 2011.