Jia Qing Wilson-Yang

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Jia Qing Wilson-Yang
LanguageEnglish
NationalityCanadian
Alma mater York University [1]
Notable worksSmall Beauty
Notable awards Dayne Ogilvie Prize

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Jia Qing Wilson-Yang is a Canadian writer and musician. Her debut novel Small Beauty was published in 2016. [2]

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She was awarded an honour of distinction from the Dayne Ogilvie Prize in 2016, [3] [4] and won the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction at the 29th Lambda Literary Awards in 2017. [5] Her writing has also appeared in the anthologies Bound to Struggle: Where Kink and Radical Politics Meet and Letters Lived: Radical Reflections, Revolutionary Paths, and in the literary magazine Room . [6]

Wilson-Yang was a member of the Guelph-based Burnt Oak collective and record label. [7] [8] She co-founded the group in 2005 with Ryan Newell and Brad MacInerny. [8] [7] In 2007 she released May All Yr Children Be Dragons which featured songs written while living in Beijing learning Mandarin. [7] The same year Wilson-Yang released the split EP Hands and Feats with Burnt Oak member Richard Laviolette. [9] They supported the release with a seven-week tour of the United States and Canada. [9]

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