{"id":21865,"date":"2026-03-16T20:08:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T00:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=21865"},"modified":"2026-06-12T19:37:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:37:47","slug":"kawai-shen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/kawai-shen\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawai Shen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Kawai Shen is a Chinese-Canadian writer living in Toronto. In the mid 2010s Shen published a couple of comics, chapbooks, essays and a mini zine under her own Cute Juice Comics imprint.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mixed Form (Fiction and Non-fiction)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Wavering Futures<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Montreal: Metatron Press, 2026.
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Wavering Futures <\/em>is a shape-shifting collection of experimental and speculative fiction and nonfiction prose, fragments that hold space for doubt, intimacy, collapse, and erotic candour. Written from the edge of ecological and emotional breakdown, these short, vivid vignettes refuse easy categories or easy answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Across three sections\u2014Imaginary Utopias, Imminent Collapse, and Survival Tactics\u2014Shen explores how we relate, resist, and reimagine ourselves in moments of personal, political, and planetary crisis. Whether through moments of quiet connection, collective dreaming, or surreal violence, Wavering Futures <\/em>leans into instability not as failure, but as invitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With a style that is lucid, polymorphous, and full of surprise, this debut offers both soft and searing accounts of living during a time of uncertainty and existential threats. Wavering Futures <\/em>is a collection written for anyone who feels unmoored by the present, but unwilling to give up on what comes next.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kawai Shen personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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