Lawrence Loh is a physician by training, but a storyteller since youth.
In Grade 3, he played Winnie the Pooh in his class play and wrote books that were wrapped in wallpaper and titled in sharpie. At university, he served as Features Editor for the Asian Canadian campus paper at Western, did improv, and helped organize and act in Western's "Purple Shorts" one-act festival.
After a decade and half in medicine, where his creativity manifested as peer-reviewed publications, he took a creative sabbatical in 2024 to complete a graduate certificate and summer workshop in Creative Writing at Humber College and an intro to screenplay series with Mystery House in Singapore.
He's drafted a memoir that draws out life lessons for his daughters from his experiences leading the hardest-hit community in Canada through the COVID-19 pandemic, but is most taken by his fiction works, where he aspires to publish stories of strong Asian Canadian women as "case studies" for his daughters in novel and screenplay formats.
He's excited to be a member of the Union and is keen to learn from the community while advancing his creative career!
