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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.
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