Sky Lee
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Born | Sharon Kwun Ying Lee September 15, 1952 Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada |
Occupation | Novelist, Artist |
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Notable works | Disappearing Moon Café |
Sky Lee (born September 15, 1952, as Sharon Lee[1]) is a Canadian artist and novelist. Lee has published both feminist fiction and non-fiction and identifies as lesbian.[1]
Personal life
Lee was born September 15, 1952, in Port Alberni, British Columbia. Her mother, Wong Mowe Oi, was a homemaker and her father, Lee Gwei Chang, was a millworker.[2]
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Chinese | 李群英 | ||
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Career
Lee was first published as the illustrator of 1983's children's book, Teach Me to Fly, Skyfighter! by Paul Yee. The book is a collection of four stories exploring what it is like to grow up as a Chinese-Canadian in a community with links to both Asian-Canadian and Anglo-Canadian cultures. Reviewer Robert W. Bruinsma argued the book was "modestly illustrated."
Lee's first book, Disappearing Moon Cafe, published in 1990, explores the Wong family over four generations, as they operate the titled cafe. Nominated for the
In the same year, Lee contributed to the collective prose, Telling It: Women and Language Across Culture. The book's writing is attributed to the "Telling It Book Collective", of which Lee was a member. The book explores issues of
In 1994, Lee published Bellydancer: Stories, a collection of 15 short stories that explore a range of
Critical Studies: Dr. John Z. Ming Chen's monograph, The Influence of Daoism on Asian-Canadian Writers (2008), features an entire chapter on SKY Lee's two book-length works of fiction published so far.
Her short stories have also appeared in Vancouver Short Stories as well as periodicals such as West Coast Line, The Asianadian Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine, Kinethis, and Makara.
Bibliography
- Teach Me to Fly, Skyfighter!: And Other Stories (as illustrator, text by Paul Yee) – 1983
- Disappearing Moon Cafe – 1990
- Telling It: Women and Language Across Cultures – 1990 (with Betsy Warland, Lee Maracle and Daphne Marlatt) Press Gang Publishers
- Bellydancer: Stories – 1994
References
- ^ ISBN 0-313-30911-6
- ISBN 9780802007612. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
- ISBN 978-1-926455-81-5.