Author Fiona Tinwei Lam
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Vancouver’s 6th Poet Laureate, Fiona Tinwei Lam has authored three poetry collections and a children’s book. Her poems have been featured in Best Canadian Poetry and BC’s Poetry in Transit, as well as in several award-winning poetry videos made in collaboration with filmmakers that have screened around the world, including Berlin, Athens, Copenhagen, Buenos Aires, Houston, Seattle, and L.A. She edited The Bright Well: Contemporary Canadian Poems about Facing Cancer, and co-edited two non-fiction anthologies. Shortlisted for the City of Vancouver Book Prize and other awards, her work appears in over forty anthologies. She teaches creative writing at SFU Continuing Studies.