Lindsay Wong
Lindsay Wong is a Canadian writer from Vancouver, British Columbia. She is best known for her 2018 memoir The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family, which explores her family’s history of mental illness and supernatural beliefs with humour and candor. Wong holds a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and an MFA in Literary Nonfiction from Columbia University. Her work has earned provincial and national recognition in Canada.
Awards
['Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (winner, 2019)', "Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction (shortlist, 2019)", 'Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour (longlist, 2019)', 'Canada Reads (selected title, 2019)']
Notable Works
['The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family']
