Rita
Wong
Rita Wong is a poet and scholar whose writing focuses on ecological justice and decolonization. She has written several books of poetry including monkeypuzzle, sybil unrest, undercurrent, and forage, which won the 2008 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and was the 2011 Canada Reads Poetry champion. Wong also won the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award from the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop. She is an associate professor in critical and cultural studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. She lives on the unceded Coast Salish territories, also known as Vancouver.
