2024 Festival:
October 21–27

Emily Chou

(British Columbia)

EMILY CHOU is a writer/cartoonist from unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ territory who ran away to the UK, Japan, and Italy, and now finds herself right back where she started but with the addition of a rescue American (pitbull) and rescue Italian (human). She has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC. Her poems and comics have appeared in various magazines and anthologies such as Room, Chinatown Today, and Geist.