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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E167 - Julie Rennie - A Conversation With Dr. Black's Mother
E166 - Dr. T.J. Wray - Grief Dreams and the Bible
E165 - Flora Baker - The Adult Orphan Club
E164 - Philip Goldberg - Spiritual Practice for Crazy Times
E163 - Jane Edberg - The Fine Art of Grieving
E162 - Alexa Norton - Grief Shine
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E160 - John Dietsch - Graced By Waters
E159 - Erica Buist - This Party's Dead
E158 - Chelsea Rushton - The Other Side of Chelshotel
E157 - Dr. Virginia Marsico - From Bruiser to Wall-E
E156 - Guest Update - Rebecca MacDonald
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