Photo Credit:
Photo credit
Tracy Wong
Julia Lin
BIO
Biography
Julia Lin was born in Taiwan and lived there and in Vietnam before her family immigrated to Canada when she was nine. Since then, Julia has lived in Vancouver and its environs, Toronto, and northern British Columbia. She holds a graduate degree in Immunology (M.Sc., University of Toronto) and a post-graduate degree in computing education (University of British Columbia) and has taught high school math, science, and computing science in British Columbia for a number of years. Her writing mentor, M.G. Vassanji, encouraged her to complete the short story collection, Miah, after she submitted the first stories in the 2009 Humber Creative Writing Program.
ADDRESS
City: Vancouver,
Province/Territory: British Columbia
EMAIL
c/o TWUC
GENRE
literary fiction, commercial fiction, creative non-fiction
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Miah
Publisher
Mawenzi House
Year
2012
Title
AlliterAsian: Twenty Years of Ricepaper Magazine
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp
Year
2015
Title
Shadows of the Crimson Sun: One Man 's Life in Manchuria
Title
Taiwan
Title
and North America
Publisher
Mawenzi House
Year
2017
LINKS
Links
EQUITY INITIATIVE
As part of the Union’s Equity Implementation Plan, we are committed to increasing awareness of authors who are Black, Indigenous, racialized, LGBTQI2S, or living with a disability. This author identifies as:
Members who identify as:
Black, Indigenous, and/or racialized
Programs & Interests
Interested in participating Union’s Ontario Writers-in-the-Schools program:
All members are eligible for the Union’s Ontario Writers-in-the-Schools program. Are you interested in participating in this pro
No
Interested in participating in the Northern Ontario WITS program:
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No
