Anna Quon
BIO
Biography
Anna Quon, a poet and novelist living in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), likes to make paintings and short animated films of her poems. Mixed-race, middle-aged and Mad, Anna has facilitated writing and creative arts workshops for people with lived experience of mental health diagnoses/ psychiatric histories for 15 years. Her first professionally published poetry chapbook, Body Parts, was released in 2021 by Gaspereau Press. Anna’s third novel, Where the Silver River Ends, which creates a trilogy with her first two unrelated stories, Migration Songs and Low, was released in March 2022. Anna is Halifax Regional Municipality Poet Laureate until April 2027.
ADDRESS
City: Halifax,
Province/Territory: Nova Scotia
EMAIL
c/o TWUC
GENRE
poetry, literary fiction
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Migration Songs
Publisher
Invisible Publishing
Year
2009
Title
Low
Publisher
Invisible Publishing
Year
2013
Title
Body Parts
Publisher
Gaspereau Press
Year
2021
Title
Where the Silver River Ends
Publisher
Invisible Publishing
Year
2022
LINKS
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Members who identify as:
Black, Indigenous, and/or racialized
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