Jenny Heijun Wills
Biography:
Jenny Heijun Wills is the author of Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related (McClelland & Stewart, Penguin Random House Canada, 2019), which won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust NonFiction Prize in 2019 and the Manitoba Book Awards' Best First Book Prize in 2020. It was named as a best book of 2019 by The Globe & Mail, CBC Books, and was deemed one of the 10 best Manitoban-authored books of the last decade by the Winnipeg Free Press. It was reviewed and/or featured, amongst other places, in The New York Review of Books, The LA Times, Elle Canada, Hazlitt, and The Rumpus. She is also co-editor of Adoption and Multiculturalism (University of Michigan Press, 2020) and Teaching Asian North American Texts (The Modern Languages Association Press, 2022). Her next book, Asian Adopted Queer Hungry, a collection of personal essays, will be published in 2024 (Knopf, Penguin Random House Canada). She is a Fulbright Alum (Harvard) and in 2015 was Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. She holds two BA-HONS (Journalism, English), an MA, and a PhD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Heijun_Wills
Teaching Areas:
critical race studies, asian/north american, creative writing