Join authors Phoebe Wang and Joanne Leow for a joint reading and discussion at Iron Dog Books! Joanne Leow is an SFU professor and author who will discuss her recently published nonfiction title, Exhumations: Inside the Body of a Petrostate. Phoebe Wang is an author and poet whose collection of essays, Relative To Wind: On Sailing, Craft and Community, was published in Fall 2024. Both books examine the colonial relationship of bodies with the natural environment -- the authors will discuss these themes and more through conversation and readings. This event is taking place on Thursday, April 30th, starting at 7:00pm with doors opening at 6:30pm. Reserve your spot through the link below!
From the publisher:
JOANNE LEOW is a Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor at Simon Fraser University. Her research interests lie at the intersections of spatial theory, decolonial theory, postcolonial studies, transnational and diasporic texts, and the environmental humanities. Her essays, fiction, and poetry have been published in Brick, Catapult, Evergreen Review, The Goose, Isle, The Kindling, The Town Crier, QLRS, and Ricepaper Magazine. Her first academic monograph is Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise (Liverpool University Press, 2024), and her debut collection of poetry is Seas Move Away (Turnstone Press, 2022). Joanne Leow grew up in Singapore and lives on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
PHOEBE WANG is a first-generation Chinese-Canadian currently based in Toronto, Canada. She is the author of the poetry collections Admission Requirements (McClelland and Stewart, 2017), shortlisted for the Gerald Lambert Memorial Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and nominated for the Trillium Book Award, and Waking Occupations (McClelland and Stewart, 2022). Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in The Globe & Mail, The New Quarterly, Brick, and The Unpublished City, which was shortlisted for a Toronto Book Award, and she co-edited The Unpublished City: Volume II, The Lived City. She is currently on the editorial board with Brick Books. She has been a mentor with Diaspora Dialogues and is an adjunct professor and mentor in the University of Toronto Creative Writing MA program. Wang lives and sails in Toronto, Ontario.
Thursday Apr 30th, 2026, 7:00 PM -8:30 PM Iron Dog Books