Phoebe Wang was born in Ottawa and now lives in Toronto. She holds a BA in English from York University and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto. Her first chapbook, Occasional Emergencies, was published with Toronto’s Odourless Press in 2013 and her second, Hanging Exhibits, with The Emergency Response Unit in 2016.
Poetry
Admission Requirements
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2017.
PS8645 .A5327 A64 2017
Publisher’s Synopsis (from its website)
The poems in Admission Requirements attempt to discover what is required of us when we cut across our material and psychic geographies. Simultaneously full and empty of its origins, the self is continually taxed of any certainties and ways of being. The speaker in these poems is engaged in a kind of fieldwork, surveying gardens, communities, and the haphazard cityscape, where the reader is presented with the paradoxes of subsumed histories. With understated irony and unsettling imagery, the poems address the internal conflicts inherent in contemporary living.
Awards and Honours
2018 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award (Shortlist)
2018 Pat Lowther Memorial Award (Shortlist)
2018 Trillium Book Award for Poetry–English Language (Finalist)
2017 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design–Poetry (Second Prize), Jennifer Griffiths, designer
Anthology (Poetry)
Tok. Book 6
Wang, Phoebe. “Poems.” In Tok. Book 6, edited by Helen Walsh. Toronto: Zephyr Press, 2011, 61-71.
Links
Phoebe Wang’s personal blog, A Little Print
Publisher McClelland and Stewart, an imprint of Penguin Random House Canada