Chuqiao Yang
Chuqiao Yang is a poet and serves as an editor at The Fiddlehead. In 2015, she was a finalist for the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers – Poetry. Yang’s collection Reunions in the Year of the Sheep won the bpNichol Chapbook Award. Her work has appeared in The Walrus, PRISM international, Room, and other magazines. Yang’s debut poetry collection, The Last to the Party, was a finalist for the 2025 Ottawa Book Awards. She was born in Beijing, grew up in Saskatchewan, and now lives in Ottawa.
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“Employing lyric intensity and deftly placed slivers of narrative and dialogue, Chuqiao Yang explores the intricacies of the cultural, generational, and temporal connections and chasms that occur between human beings. Demonstrating finesse and dexterity with poetic form, her work distills the essence of both place and character. These are engaging, emotionally resonant poems written by a poet with a compelling and original voice.” — 2015 RBC Bronwen Wallace Jury (Rachel Rose, Nilofar Shidmehr, and Fiona Tinwei Lam)Juror History
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