The opening act will be Lindsay Kroes, who has recently published Gather by the Avon, an anthology of local history short stories.
About the feature author:
Ann Shin is a writer, filmmaker and new media producer based in Toronto. She has two books of poetry published, the latest book being The Family China, published by Brick Books in May 2013. Her writing has also been published in anthologies and magazines in Canada and the US, including Literary Review of Canada, On a Bed of Rice, Anchor Books, Geography of Encounters, Rowman and Little Press, Alphabet City: FOOD, MIT Press.
About The Family China:
"This short, dazzling collection of poems contains
a universe—nothing short of North American life in the late twentieth
and early twenty-first century. Somehow it is all here, joyously
offered up, birth, death, and everything in between" –
Karen Connelly, author of The Lizard Cage and Burmese Lessons
