Fiona Tinwei Lam has authored three poetry collections and a children's book. She has produced several award-winning poetry videos that have screened at festivals all over the world. Besides editing the anthology, The Bright Well: Contemporary Canadian Poems on Facing Cancer, she has co-edited two nonfiction anthologies. She has been shortlisted for the City of Vancouver Book Award and thrice selected for BC’s Poetry in Transit. Her work appears in over 40 anthologies, including the Best Canadian Poetry series. A former lawyer, she has an MFA in creative writing from UBC. She currently teaches at SFU's Continuing Studies and has been appointed Vancouver’s Poet Laureate for 2022-2024, which serves as a champion for poetry, language, and the arts. You can find more about her at www.fionalam.net
In the episode we talk with Fiona about the death of her father as a child, her mother having dementia, coping with the death of her mother and father, her child’s grief after her mother died, her children's book “The Rainbow Rocket”, Ching Ming Day, and a dream of her deceased father.
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E208 - 2021 Grief Dream Recaps - Part 1
E207 - Jenn K. Lee - Grieving in Dreams
E206 - Dr. Karen Wyatt - These Roads Can Be Tricky Sometimes
E205 - Zachary Steele - The Weight of Ashes
E204 - Autumn Toelle-Jackson - Boldly into the Darkness
E203 - Heike Mertins - Grief is...
E202 - Callsuma Ali - Bereavement Room
E201 - Guest Update - Heather Stang
Rerelease: E119 - Heather Stang - Mindfulness & Grief
E200 - Dr. Roger Ivar Lohmann - Cultural Dream Theories
E199 - Caitlin Garvey - The Mourning Report
E198 - Saje Dyer - The Knowing
E197 - Jessica Clontz - A Grandmother’s Love
E196 - Gabrielle Mirabile - The Spirit of Zingara
E195 - Julie Potter - Harnessing the Power of Grief
E194 - Holly Truhlar - The Search for What’s Just and Holy
E193 - Sabrina Palazzo - Finding A New Mindset
E192 - Mike Bernhardt - Voices of the Grieving Heart
E191 - Guest Update - Pennie Hunt
Rerelease: E102 - Pennie Hunt - Green Love & Gratitude
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