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Jenny Heijun Wills
Korean Canadian writer and scholar
Jenny Heijun Wills (born 1981) is a Korean Canadian writer and scholar, whose memoir Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related (McClelland & Stewart) won the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction in 2019.[1] The book also won a Manitoba Book Award in 2020 for Best First Book.[2] It was a finalist for two other book prizes.
Born in South Korea, she was adopted by a Canadian family in infancy and was raised in Southern Ontario.[3]