About this Event
Worldly Girls Launch with Tamara Jong, Yilin Wang and Catherine Lewis for a night of readings, conversation and Q&A.
Cross & Crows Books will be onsite to sell books!
An Evening of Readings with Tamara Jong, author of Worldly Girls (Book*hug, 2025), and Yilin Wang, author and translator of The Lantern and the Night Moths (Invisible Publishing, 2024)hosted by Catherine Lewis, author of Zipless (845 Press)
Held at Simon Fraser University 515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3, The Policy Room 7000
About Worldly Girls: Tamara Jong’s powerful memoir documents the slow unravelling of her connection to her faith and the tragic history of her fractured family, shining a light into the dark corners of memory that have haunted her well into adulthood.
TAMARA JONG (she/her) is a Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) born writer of Chinese and European ancestry. Her work has been published in the Humber Literary Review, Room Magazine, and The Fiddlehead, and has been both long and shortlisted for various creative nonfiction prizes. She is a graduate of The Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University and a former member of Room Magazine's collective. She currently lives and works on Treaty 3 territory, the occupied and ancestral lands of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinabewaki, Attiwonderonk, and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation (Guelph, ON). Worldly Girls is her first book.
About The Lantern and the Night Moths: Her debut book The Lantern and the Night Moths (Invisible Publishing, 2024) features five modern and contemporary Chinese poets, Qiu Jin, Dai Wangshu, Fei Ming, Xiao Xi, and Zhang Qiaohui in translation along with original essays on the art of translation. It is the first book of translations from Chinese (Mandarin) to win the John Glassco Translation Prize from the Literary Translators Association of Canada in the 40-year history of the award.
Yilin Wang (she/they) is a Chinese diaspora poet and Chinese-English translator. Her debut book The Lantern and the Night Moths (Invisible Publishing, 2024) is the first book of translations from Chinese (Mandarin) to win the John Glassco Translation Prize from the Literary Translators Association of Canada in the 40-year history of the prize. Her words and translations have appeared in Clarkesworld, Fantasy Magazine, Room, Canthius, Words Without Borders, The Tyee, the anthology The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories (TorDotCom 2022), and elsewhere. She has won the Foster Poetry Prize, the ALTA Virtual Fellowship, and the Dwarf Stars Award, and has been a finalist for Canada’s National Magazine Award, the CBC Poetry Prize, and the Aurora Award. She has an MFA from UBC and is a graduate of Clarion West. www.yilinwang.com
About Zipless: In her debut poetry chapbook Zipless, Chinese Canadian writer Catherine Lewis chronicles a bisexual city girl’s journey beyond her failed fertility treatments into her romantic mishaps and Pride party adventures as a newbie on the queer women’s dating scene.
Catherine Lewis is a Chinese Canadian author and poet. Catherine Lewis (she/her/hers) is a finalist for the Bisexual Book Awards’ Bi Writer of the Year. Her debut chapbook Zipless (845 Press), currently in its fourth printing, is a finalist for the Bisexual Book Award for Poetry.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Harbour Centre, 555 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, Canada
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