{"id":8466,"date":"2017-09-20T12:34:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T16:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=8466"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:43:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:43:03","slug":"leanne-dunic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/leanne-dunic\/","title":{"rendered":"Leanne Dunic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Leanne Dunic is a multidisciplinary artist, musician and writer. Dunic was born in Canada to parents with Chinese and Croatian ancestry. Dunic’s published writings include poetry, fiction and non-fiction. She was the 2015 winner of the Alice Munro Short Story Contest<\/a> She has published a few chapbooks including Accretion<\/em> (Onzieme Press, 2012), Swimming Sense<\/em> (Leaf Press) and  Day After Day<\/em> (Bitterzoet Press, 2014). To Love the Coming End<\/em> is her first full-length collection. Dunic is a singer\/guitarist with the band The Deep Cove. Dunic lives on the unceded and occupied Traditional Territories of the x\u02b7m\u0259\u03b8k\u02b7\u0259y\u0313\u0259m, S\u1e35wx\u0331w\u00fa7mesh, and s\u0259l\u0313ilw\u0259ta\u0241\u026c peoples in what some call Vancouver..<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One and Half of You<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2021.
PS8607.U535 O54 2021<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

One and Half of You<\/em> is a memoir that begins with the author\u2019s growing up biracial on rural Vancouver Island. Not fitting in at school, she turns for comfort to her brother, who is in many ways the opposite of her. Only when she moves from the Island to the mainland does she meet another like her. Through sinuous language, risk, and surprising humour, this hybrid work explores sibling and romantic love, and the complexities of being a biracial person looking for completion in another. Includes links to recordings of three songs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry (Chapbook)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Salt Rich<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Small Harbor Publishing, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Salt Rich<\/em> travels from the “wrinkled Adriatic” to the shores of Vancouver Island, recounting a family history through poetic still lifes of food, landscapes, bodies of water, and lives human and otherwise. These tender fragments explore hope and grief, hunger and nourishment, hardship and sacrifice, learning and loss.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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To Love the Coming End<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: BookThug, 2017.
PS8607.U535 T65 2017<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In To Love the Coming End<\/em>, a disillusioned author obsessed with natural disasters and \u2018the curse of 11\u2019 reflects on their own personal earthquake: the loss of a loved one. A lyric travelogue that moves between Singapore, Canada, and Japan, this debut from Leanne Dunic captures what it\u2019s like to be united while simultaneously separated from the global experience of trauma, history, and loss that colour our everyday lives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Wet<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In Wet<\/em>, a transient Chinese American model working in Singapore thirsts for the unattainable: fair labour rights, the extinguishing of nearby forest fires, breathable air, healthy habitats for animals, human connection. She navigates place and placelessness while observing other migrant workers toiling outdoors despite the hazardous conditions. In photographs and language shot through with empathy and desire, Wet<\/em> unravels complexities of social stratification, sexual privation, and environmental catastrophe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2025 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize<\/a> (BC and Yukon Book Prizes)(Winner)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Mixed Forms<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Gift: A Story and Music<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Leanne Dunic & The Deep Cove.
Illustrations by Gabrielle Bates.
Toronto: Book*hug Press, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Limited edition of 500 copies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Description (From the Publisher’s website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Gift<\/em> contains a short story by Leanne Dunic and lyrics she wrote for a companion album of the same name by The Deep Cove.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Leanne Dunic’s personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Book*hug Press<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Small Harbor Publishing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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