An Evening with Amber Dawn moderated by Jen Sookfong Lee
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The North Shore Writers Festival presents An Evening with Amber Dawn moderated by Jen Sookfong Lee
About this event
Join the North Shore Writers Festival for An Evening with Amber Dawn moderated by Jen Sookfong Lee.
Join Jen Sookfong Lee in conversation with award-winning author Amber Dawn about her latest book, My Art Is Killing Me and Other Poems.
This is a virtual program that takes place online via Zoom. You'll need a computer with microphone and speaker/headphones, or your smartphone/tablet.
Registration is required. Register by April 30 at 12:00pm. The meeting link and instructions will be emailed to registrants on the day of the event.
For more information on this event or other 2022 North Shore Writers Festival events, visit www.northshorewritersfestival.com
The North Shore Writers Festival is presented in partnership by North Vancouver City Library, North Vancouver District Public Library, and West Vancouver Memorial Library.
The Festival would not be made possible without support from:
- Friends of the Library groups from all three North Shore Libraries
- North Shore Writers’ Association
- North Shore News
If you have any questions, please reach out to nswftrivia@gmail.com
About the Presenters
About Amber Dawn
Amber Dawn is a writer and creative facilitator living on unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (Vancouver, Canada). Her debut novel Sub Rosa (2010) won the Lambda Literary Award for Debut Lesbian Fiction and the Writers’ Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize.
Her memoir How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir (2013) won the Vancouver Book Award. Her poetry collection Where the words end and my body begins (2015) was a finalist for BC Book Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.
About Jen Sookfong Lee
Jen Sookfong Lee was born and raised in Vancouver’s East Side, and she now lives with her son in North Burnaby. Her books include The Conjoined, nominated for International Dublin Literary Award and a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, The Better Mother, a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award, The End of East, The Shadow List, and Finding Home. Jen acquires and edits for ECW Press and co-hosts the literary podcast, Can’t Lit.
