Photo Credit:
Photo credit
Jackson Ezra
Jiaqing Wilson-Yang
BIO
Biography
Jia Qing Wilson-Yang is a Toronto based writer. Her debut novel, Small Beauty, won the 2016 Lambda Literary Award for Best Transgender Fiction and received and Honourable Mention in the 2016 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Emerging LGBTQ Writers. Her short fiction and poetry has appeared in ARC, Room Magazine, Maisonneuve, Poetry is Dead, Rice Paper Magazine, Carte Blanche, and The Kit.
ADDRESS
City: Toronto,
Province/Territory: Ontario
EMAIL
c/o TWUC
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Small Beauty
Publisher
Metonymy Press
Year
2016
AWARDS
Awards
Name
Lambda Literary Award
Name
Best Transgender Fiction
Publication
Small Beauty
Year
2016
Name
Honourable Mention
Name
Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Emerging LGBTQ Writers
Publication
Small Beauty
Year
2016
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EQUITY INITIATIVE
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Members who identify as:
Black, Indigenous, and/or racialized
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