Name Jen Lee | Role Novelist | |
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Books The end of east, The Better Mother | ||
Jen Sookfong Lee-The End of East-author interview
LiterASIAN with Jen Sookfong Lee, Janie Chang, Julia Lin, and Catherine Hernandez
Jen Sookfong Lee is a Canadian broadcaster and novelist. A radio personality for CBC Radio One in Vancouver, British Columbia, she contributes a regular literary segment called "Westcoast Words" to On the Coast and All Points West, the network's local programs in Vancouver and Victoria, and is also a regular contributor to the national network program The Next Chapter. In the CBC's national Canada Reads competition in 2009, she defended Brian Francis's novel Fruit.
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- Jen Sookfong Lee The End of East author interview
- LiterASIAN with Jen Sookfong Lee Janie Chang Julia Lin and Catherine Hernandez
- References
Her published works include the novels The End of East (2007) and The Better Mother (2011), the young adult novel Shelter (2011) and the short story "Chill, Hush" in the anthology TOK: Writing the New City (2009).
She and her son reside in East Vancouver, British Columbia.
She served on the jury for the 2011 Dayne Ogilvie Prize, a literary award for emerging LGBT writers in Canada, selecting Farzana Doctor as that year's winner.
