51. Mental Health Writing w/ Jen Sookfong Lee

Published: March 31, 2021, 4:27 p.m.

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Jen Sookfong Lee joins Andrew to talk community, winter, and mental health. Andrew gets Jen\'s permission to put a book down after 30 pages. It\'s a joy!

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Jen Sookfong Lee was born and raised in Vancouver\\u2019s East Side, and she now lives with her son in North Burnaby. Her books include The Conjoined, nominated for International Dublin Literary Award and a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, The Better Mother, a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award, The End of East, Gentlemen of the Shade, The Shadow List, and Finding Home. Jen teaches at The Writers\\u2019 Studio Online with Simon Fraser University, acquires and edits fiction for Wolsak & Wynn, and co-hosts the podcast Can\\u2019t Lit.

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Andrew French is an author from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He is the author of two chapbooks, Do Not Discard Ashes (845 Press, 2020) and Poems for Different Yous (Rose Garden Press, 2021). Andrew has a BA in English from Huron University College at Western University and an MA in English from UBC. He writes poems, book reviews, and hosts this very podcast.

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