A first generation Chinese-Canadian, I was born in Ottawa, the traditional territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe. I graduated with a B.A. in Honours English at York University and a M.A. in English and Creative Writing at the University of Toronto. I am the author of two poetry collections: Admission Requirements (McClelland and Stewart, 2017), which was shortlisted for the Gerald Lambert Memorial Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and nominated for the Trillium Book Award; and Waking Occupations (McClelland and Stewart, 2022). My essay collection, Relative to Wind: On Sailing, Craft and Community was published with Assembly Press in fall 2024. My fiction and nonfiction has appeared in Brick Magazine, The Globe and Mail, The New Quarterly, What the Poets are Doing: Canadian Poets in Conversation, Refuse: CanLit in Ruins, and The Unpublished City, shortlisted for a Toronto Book Award. I co-edited The Unpublished City: Volume II, The Lived City. From 2021-2022 I served as Writer-In-Residence at the University of New Brunswick and have edited poetry with The Fiddlehead magazine and Brick Books. I am a mentor with Diaspora Dialogues and the University of Toronto Creative Writing MA program, and am currently a Writing Consultant supporting multilingual students at OCAD University, where I have also been a sessional instructor in Creative Writing.
Phoebe Ka-Ir Wang 