Loretta Seto is a Vancouver-based fiction writer, screenwriter and playwright. She earned an MFA in creative writing at the University of British Columbia in 2002. Two of her plays, Dirty Old Woman (2014, 2016) and The Ones We Leave Behind (2018) were staged in Vancouver.
Fiction (Juvenile, Picture book)
Mooncakes
Illustrated by Renné Benoit.
Victoria, BC: Orca Book Publishers, 2013.
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
Mooncakes is the lyrical story of a young girl who shares the special celebration of the Chinese Moon Festival with her parents. As they eat mooncakes, drink tea and watch the night sky together, Mama and Baba tell ancient tales of a magical tree that can never be cut down, the Jade Rabbit who came to live on the moon and one brave woman’s journey to eternal life. With a gentle focus on the importance of family, Mooncakes is both a perfect book for parent and child to read together and an ideal choice for schools and libraries.
Anthology (Short story)
Strike the Wok: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Canadian Fiction
Seto, Loretta. “Versus.” In Strike the Wok: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Canadian Fiction, edited by Lien Chao and Jim Wong-Chu. Toronto: TSAR, 2003.