Lindsay Wong

Lindsay Wong is a Canadian writer, whose memoir The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family was published in 2018.[1] The book, a humorous memoir about her Chinese Canadian family's history of mental illness,[2] won the 2019 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize[3] and was a shortlisted finalist for the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.[4]

Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia,[5] Wong wrote the book while pursuing graduate studies at Columbia University in New York City.[1]

The Woo-Woo was selected for the 2019 edition of Canada Reads, where it was defended by Joe Zee,[6] and was longlisted for the 2019 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.[7]

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