{"id":8538,"date":"2017-10-24T19:45:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T23:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=8538"},"modified":"2024-08-12T13:12:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T17:12:03","slug":"jia-qing-wilson-yang","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/jia-qing-wilson-yang\/","title":{"rendered":"Jia Qing Wilson-Yang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jia Qing (Jiaqing) Wilson-Yang is a mixed-race trans woman of Chinese descent living in Toronto. She is a musician, poet, short story writer and novelist. Wilson-Yang earned a B.S.W. from York University and works with Toronto Metropolitan University’s Office of Sexual Violence Support and Education.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Small Beauty<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Montr\u00e9al, Qu\u00e9bec: Metonym Press, 2016.
PS8645 .I567 S63 2016<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Small Beauty<\/em> tells the story of Mei, who in coping with the death of her cousin abandons her life in the city to live in his now empty house in a small town. There she connects with his history as well as her own, learns about her aunt\u2019s long-term secret relationship, and reflects on the trans women she left behind. She also brushes up against some local trans mysteries and gets advice from departed loved ones with a lot to say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

2016 Writers Trust of Canada–Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers <\/a>(Honour of Distinction)
2017 Lambda Literary Awards<\/a>–Best Transgender Fiction (Winner)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Publisher Metonym Press <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interview by Kathleen Fraser in Plenitude Magazine<\/a> (6 April 2016)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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