Author Fiona Tinwei Lam
Rebecca Blissett Photograph
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.
Her poem “Covenant” can be read on our website at https://canlit.ca/article/covenant-2.
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