Jia_Qing_Wilson-Yang
Jia Qing Wilson-Yang
Canadian writer; her debut novel Small
Jia Qing Wilson-Yang is a Canadian writer and musician. Her debut novel Small Beauty was published in 2016.[2]
She was awarded an honour of distinction from the Dayne Ogilvie Prize in 2016,[3][4] and won the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction at the 29th Lambda Literary Awards in 2017.[5] Her writing has also appeared in the anthologies Bound to Struggle: Where Kink and Radical Politics Meet and Letters Lived: Radical Reflections, Revolutionary Paths, and in the literary magazine Room.[6]
Wilson-Yang was a member of the Guelph-based Burnt Oak collective and record label.[7][8] She co-founded the group in 2005 with Ryan Newell and Brad MacInerny.[8][7] In 2007 she released May All Yr Children Be Dragons which featured songs written while living in Beijing learning Mandarin.[7] The same year Wilson-Yang released the split EP Hands and Feats with Burnt Oak member Richard Laviolette.[9] They supported the release with a seven-week tour of the United States and Canada.[9]
