lives and works on unceded Coast Salish territories, also known as Vancouver, where she attends to questions of water justice, decolonization, and ecology. Co-editor of the anthology Downstream: Reimagining Water with Dorothy Christian, Wong has written several books of poetry: current, climate (2021), beholden (2018, with Fred Wah), undercurrent (2008, with Larissa Lai), forage (shortlisted for the 2008 Asian American Literary Award for Poetry and winner of Canada Reads Poetry, 2011) and monkeypuzzle (1998). She has received the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop Emerging Writer Award.
