Mercedes Eng: Reading and Launch Event

Simon Fraser University's Department of English invites you to celebrate the launch of award-winning author Mercedes Eng's residency. Please join us for an illuminating evening of reading and discussion, followed by light refreshments. The event takes place at SFU's Harbour Centre campus in room 1400-1410 from 7-10 p.m.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Mercedes Eng's Bio

Mercedes Eng is the author of Mercenary English, a poem about sex work, violence, and resistance in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood of Vancouver, Prison Industrial Complex Explodes, winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and my yt mama, which documents a childhood lived under white supremacy in Canadian prairies. Her writing has appeared in Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry, Jacket 2, Asian American Literary Review, The Capilano Review, The Abolitionist, r/ally (No One Is Illegal), and Survaillance and M’aidez (Press Release). Mercedes teaches at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, where she also organizes the On Edge reading series, and is an incoming 2023 Shadbolt Fellow at Simon Fraser University. She is dreaming and planting towards the destruction of carceral systems.

Read Mercedes Eng's feature story.