Kim Fu
Kim Fu (born 1987) is a Canadian-born writer, living in Seattle, Washington. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia to immigrant parents from Hong Kong,[1] Fu studied creative writing at the University of British Columbia.[1]
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.jpg.webp) Fu at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2018 | |
| Born | 1987 Vancouver, British Columbia |
| Occupation | novelist |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 2010s-present |
| Notable works | For Today I Am a Boy |
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Her first novel For Today I Am a Boy won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award.[2] It was also a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and long-listed for CBC's Canada Reads. Fu's debut poetry collection How Festive the Ambulance received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, and includes a 2017 National Magazine Awards Silver Medal winner and a Best Canadian Poetry 2016 selection.
Fu's writing has appeared in Granta, the Atlantic, the New York Times, Hazlitt, and the Times Literary Supplement. She has received residency fellowships from the Ucross Foundation, Berton House, Wildacres, and the Wallace Stegner Grant for the Arts.
Her second novel, The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, was published in February 2018.
Her short story collection Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century is slated for publication in 2022.[3]
Published works
| Title | Year Published | Publisher | Notes |
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| For Today I Am a Boy | 2014 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
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| How Festive the Ambulance: Poems | 2016 | Nightwood Editions |
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| The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore | 2018 | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
References
- "Gender a 'universal' tale; Author explores struggles of transgender character in first novel". Vancouver Sun, January 18, 2014.
- Van Koeverden, Jane (March 31, 2017). "Kim Fu on why she envies teenage poets". cbc.ca.
- "66 works of Canadian fiction to watch for in spring 2022". CBC Books, January 11, 2022.