Fiona Tinwei Lam is a Scottish-born Vancouver writer. Her first book of poetry, Intimate Distances, was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award. Enter the Chrysanthemum is her latest book of poetry, dealing with themes of family, love and loss.
Twice short-listed for the Event literary non-fiction prize, she was a
co-editor of and contributor to Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood, a
critically acclaimed anthology of essays about juggling the passions to
write and to parent published by McGill-Queen's University Press.
Her work has been included in BC's Poetry in Transit program, as well as
in Canadian literary magazines and anthologies including Grain, The
Fiddlehead, Prism, The New Quarterly, CVII, The Antigonish Review,
Swallowing Clouds, In Fine Form, White Ink, Not a Muse, and A Verse Map of
Vancouver. A former lawyer, Lam now dedicates her time to writing and
being a single parent to her young son.
Awards
One of four finalists, City of Vancouver Book Prize
Short-listed, Event Literary Non-Fiction Prize (twice)
Vancouver Courier Short Fiction Contest (second and fourth place)
Selected Publications
Enter the Chrysanthemum (Caitlin Press,
2009)
ISBN: 9781894759328
Intimate Distances (Nightwood Editions, Harbour
Publishing, 2002). ISBN: 9780889711884
Selected Anthologies
In Fine Form (Polestar, 2004)
White Ink (Demeter Press, 2007)
Double Lives: Writing and Mothering (McGill-Queen's University Press,
2008) ISBN: 9780773533776
Swallowing Clouds (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2000).
Books in Print
Lam, Fiona Tinwei
Enter the Chrysanthemum (Caitlin Press (Harbour Publishing),
2009)
ISBN: 9781894759328, $16.95
Intimate Distances (Nightwood Editions, Harbour
Publishing, 2002). ISBN: 9780889711884, $15.95
Fiona Lam
Website: www.fionalam.net
Website: http://www.ryerson.ca/library/events/asian_heritage/lam.html
