Catherine Lewis (she/her/hers) is a Chinese Canadian writer and poet. Her debut queer poetry chapbook Zipless, published by The /tƐmz/ Review’s 845 Press in 2021 and now in its fourth printing, is a finalist for the Bisexual Book Award for Poetry.
She is a finalist for the Bisexual Book Awards’ Bi Writer of the Year.
Recently featured at Word Vancouver and at the Poets Corner Reading Series, she has been interviewed on Vancouver Co-op Radio’s Wax Poetic.
Longlisted for the 2023 CBC Poetry Prize, 1st runner-up for Pulp Literature’s 2023 Magpie Award for Poetry, Honourable Mention for Surrey Muse’s 2023 Susan Crean Award for Nonfiction, and longlisted for Surrey Muse’s 2022 Joy Kogawa Award for Fiction, Catherine has been a finalist in creative nonfiction contests hosted by The Fiddlehead, Room Magazine, and The Humber Literary Review. She has been nominated for a 2024 Pushcart Prize.
Her work has been featured in The Fiddlehead, The Humber Literary Review, Pulp Literature, Plenitude Magazine, and PRISM international.
A graduate of the Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University and of the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive, she is a two-time Banff Centre Literary Arts alumna.
She is currently working on a poetry collection and a prose memoir.
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Canada, she lives in Vancouver on the territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, where she serves as Interim President of Vancouver Poetry House.
Catherine is also a Full Member of the League of Canadian Poets.
