Kim Fu
Kim Fu at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2018
Fu at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2018
Born1987
Vancouver, British Columbia
Occupationnovelist
NationalityCanadian
Period2010s-present
Notable worksFor Today I Am a Boy
Website
kim-fu.com

Kim Fu (born 1987) is a Canadian-born writer, living in Seattle, Washington. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia to immigrant parents from Hong Kong,[1] Fu studied creative writing at the University of British Columbia.[1]

Her first novel For Today I Am a Boy won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award.[2] It was also a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and long-listed for CBC's Canada Reads. Fu's debut poetry collection How Festive the Ambulance received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, and includes a 2017 National Magazine Awards Silver Medal winner and a Best Canadian Poetry 2016 selection.

Fu's writing has appeared in Granta, the Atlantic, the New York Times, Hazlitt, and the Times Literary Supplement. She has received residency fellowships from the Ucross Foundation, Berton House, Wildacres, and the Wallace Stegner Grant for the Arts.

Her second novel, The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, was published in 2018. Her short story collection Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century was published in 2022.[3]

Published works

Title Year Published Publisher ISBN Notes
For Today I Am a Boy 2014 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN 9780544032408
How Festive the Ambulance: Poems 2016 Nightwood Editions ISBN 9780889710641
  • 2017 National Magazine Awards Silver Medal winner
  • Best Canadian Poetry 2016 selection
The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore 2018 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN 9780544098268
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century 2022 Tin House ISBN 9781953534064 Shortlisted for the 2022 Giller Prize[4]
Winner of the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award[5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Gender a 'universal' tale; Author explores struggles of transgender character in first novel". Vancouver Sun, January 18, 2014.
  2. ↑ Van Koeverden, Jane (March 31, 2017). "Kim Fu on why she envies teenage poets". cbc.ca.
  3. ↑ "66 works of Canadian fiction to watch for in spring 2022". CBC Books, January 11, 2022.
  4. ↑ Deborah Dundas, "Rawi Hage, Suzette Mayr among five finalists for the 2022 Giller Prize worth $100,000". Toronto Star, September 27, 2022.
  5. ↑ Cassandra Drudi, "Kim Fu wins $10K Danuta Gleed Literary Award". Quill & Quire, May 25, 2023.


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