Rita Wong
BIO
Biography
Rita Wong lives and works on unceded Coast Salish territories, also known as Vancouver, where she attends to questions of water justice, decolonization, ecology and climate justice. Co-editor of the anthology Downstream: Reimagining Water with Dorothy Christian, Wong is the author of several books of poetry--current, climate (2021); beholden (with Fred Wah); undercurrent; perpetual (with Cindy Mochizuki); sybil unrest (with Larissa Lai); forage (awarded the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and Canada Reads Poetry 2011), and monkeypuzzle.
ADDRESS
City: Vancouver,
Province/Territory: British Columbia
EMAIL
rwong@ecuad.ca
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
LINKS
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
Programs & Interests
Interested in participating Union’s Ontario Writers-in-the-Schools program:
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Yes
Interested in participating in the Northern Ontario WITS program:
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Yes
