Fiona Tinwei Lam is a Scottish-born, Vancouver-based poet. Her
work has been published in The New Quarterly, Descant, Event, Grain,
The Malahat Review, Quarry, The Antigonish Review, Contemporary Verse
II, and Canadian Literature. Her poems have also been anthologized in A Room at the Heart of Things (Vehicule,
1999), Swallowing Clouds, an
anthology of Chinese Canadian poetry (Arsenal Pulp Press, 1999), and Vintage 2000 (Ronsdale 2000).
Her debut book of poetry, Intimate
Distances explores childhood, family death, relationships and
childbirth.
Her prose has appeared in Ribsauce:
a cd/anthology of words by women (Vehicule 2002) and in the Vancouver
Courier as second-prize winner in its annual fiction contest.
Another story came fourth runner up in this year’s contest. Fiona
has recently completed her MFA in creative writing at UBC and is
working on a novel while raising her lively infant son
Selected Publications
Intimate Distances (Nightwood Editions, Harbour
Publishing, 2002).
Selected Anthologies
A Room at the Heart of Things (Vehicule,
1999).
Swallowing Clouds, an
anthology of Chinese Canadian poetry (Arsenal Pulp Press, 1999).
Vintage 2000 (Ronsdale 2000).
Books in Print
Lam, Fiona Tinwei
Intimate Distances (Nightwood Editions, Harbour
Publishing, 2002).
