Corinna Chong was born in Calgary. Her first novel, Belinda’s Rings, is based upon her M.A. thesis (2010) from the Department of English at the University of New Brunswick. Chong now lives in Kelowna, B.C. and teaches English and Fine Arts at Okanagan College. Chong is also an editor and graphic designer.
Fiction
Belinda’s Rings: A Novel
Edmonton: NeWest, 2013.
PS8605 .H654 B44 2013
Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
Half-Chinese, half-English teenager Grace (but she’d prefer it if you called her “Gray” instead) is not a perfect little supermom-in-the-making like her older sister Jessica, and would rather become a marine biologist than a mother—although she does understand how to take care of her special-needs kid brother Squid better than anyone else in her family. When her mother Belinda abruptly runs out on her family and flies across the Atlantic in order to study crop circles in the English countryside, Grace is left alone to puzzle out her life, the world, and her unique place within it.
Fiction (Short stories)
The Whole Animal: Stories
Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2023.
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Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)
Half-Chinese, half-English teenager Grace (but she’d prefer it if you called her “Gray” instead) is not a perfect little supermom-in-the-making like her older sister Jessica, and would rather become a marine biologist than a mother—although she does understand how to take care of her special-needs kid brother Squid better than anyone else in her family. When her mother Belinda abruptly runs out on her family and flies across the Atlantic in order to study crop circles in the English countryside, Grace is left alone to puzzle out her life, the world, and her unique place within it.
Anthology (Short story)
AlliterAsian
Chong, Corinna. “Porcelain Legs.” In AlliterAsian: Twenty Years of Ricepaper Magazine, edited by Julia Lin, Allan Cho, and Jim Wong-Chu. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2015, 203-218.
First published in Ricepaper 18, no. 4 (2013)