FRED WAH
Frederick James Wah is a Canadian-Chinese poet, novelist, and scholar.  
Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, but raised in the interior (West Kootenay) of British Columbia.  
His father was a Canadian-born Chinese-Scots-Irishman raised in China and his mother a Swedish-born Canadian.

Wah studied literature and music at the University of British Columbia.  While there, he was a founding editor 
and contributor to TISH.  He later did graduate work at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and 
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. 

He has taught at Selkirk College, David Thompson University Centre, and the University of Calgary. 
Well known for his work on literary journals and small-press, Wah has been a contributing editor to Open Letter 
since its beginning, involved in the editing of West Coast Line, and with Frank Davey edited the world's first online 
literary magazine, SwiftCurrent.

Wah retired after 40 years of teaching.  He remains active writing and performing public readings of his poetry.  
He is currently the Writer-in-Residence at Simon Fraser University, in Burnaby, British Columbia.