Emerging Scholars, Redux: Author â Isabella Wang
April 8, 2021
On Forgetting a Language (Baseline Press 2019) and
Pebble Swing (Nightwood Editions forthcoming 2021). She has been shortlisted for
The Malahat Review‘s Far Horizons Poetry Contest, the
Minola Review‘s inaugural Poetry Contest, and shortlisted twice for
The New Quarterly‘s Edna Staebler Essay Contest. Her poetry and prose have appeared in over thirty literary journals, including
Prism,
Arc Poetry Magazine, and the
Watch Your Head anthology (Coach House Press, ed. Kathryn Mockler). She is pursuing a double-major in English and World Literature at Simon Fraser University, and is the editor for issue 44.2 of
Home > PRISM Online > Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize: 2020 Winners!
The first news of 2021: Our Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize winners, as chosen by contest judge Ariana Brown! Congratulations Karen, Natalie, and Imani!
Grand Prize
karen lee writes powerful, distinctive poetry that resounds. her polyvocal refusals are published in
The Malahat Review, The Humber Literary Review, Brick/Brickyard, anthologized in Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis, Sister Vision Press, and shortlisted for the 2018 Small Axe Literary Prize. “Tekkin Back Tongue,” her poetry manuscript in progress, is named after her self-directed writing residency in Ghana, Kenya (2018).
lee supports accessibility and social justice as an accredited Jamaican Patois court interpreter (Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General Registry), voiceover artist, described video narrator, vocalist and actor.