Wayson Choy, Contributor
Banff Centre Press

Wayson Choy was born in Vancouver and was the first Chinese person to enroll in the University of British Columbia's creative writing course. He moved to Toronto and, since 1967, has been a professor at Humber College and a faculty member of the Humber School for Writers. His award-winning works include The Jade Peony (Douglas & McIntyre 1995), which was co-winner of the Trillium Book Award, and Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood (Penguin 1999), which was short-listed for both the Governor General's Literary Award for non-fiction and the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, and won the Edna Staebler Creative Non-Fiction Award.

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