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Zipless
Finalist for 2021 Bisexual Book Award for Poetry
In her debut poetry chapbook Zipless, Chinese Canadian writer Catherine Lewis chronicles a bisexual city girl’s journey beyond her failed fertility treatments into her romantic mishaps and Pride party adventures as a newbie on the queer women’s dating scene.
In her debut poetry chapbook Zipless, Chinese Canadian writer Catherine Lewis chronicles a bisexual city girl’s journey beyond her failed fertility treatments into her romantic mishaps and Pride party adventures as a newbie on the queer women’s dating scene.
32 pages, Paperback
Published November 19, 2021
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About the author
Catherine Lewis
2 books9 followersChinese Canadian writer and poet Catherine Lewis is the author of the poetry chapbook Zipless (845 Press), a finalist for the 2021 Bisexual Book Award for Poetry. She is a finalist for the Bisexual Book Awards’ 2021 Bi Writer of the Year. Her work has been featured in The Fiddlehead, The Humber Literary Review, Pulp Literature, Plenitude Magazine, PRISM international, the anthology emerge 19 and the League of Canadian Poets’ Poetry Pause.
Longlisted for the 2023 CBC Poetry Prize and first runner-up for Pulp Literature’s 2023 Magpie Award for Poetry, she has been a finalist in creative nonfiction contests hosted by The Fiddlehead, Room Magazine, and The Humber Literary Review. She was nominated for a 2024 Pushcart Prize. A graduate of the Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University and of the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive, she is a two-time Banff Centre Literary Arts alumna.
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Canada, she lives in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, where she serves as Interim President of Vancouver Poetry House.
She is a Full Member of the League of Canadian Poets and of the Writers’ Union of Canada.
In her spare time, she enjoys sushi, sauvignon blanc, and buying way too many shoes.
Longlisted for the 2023 CBC Poetry Prize and first runner-up for Pulp Literature’s 2023 Magpie Award for Poetry, she has been a finalist in creative nonfiction contests hosted by The Fiddlehead, Room Magazine, and The Humber Literary Review. She was nominated for a 2024 Pushcart Prize. A graduate of the Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University and of the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive, she is a two-time Banff Centre Literary Arts alumna.
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Canada, she lives in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, where she serves as Interim President of Vancouver Poetry House.
She is a Full Member of the League of Canadian Poets and of the Writers’ Union of Canada.
In her spare time, she enjoys sushi, sauvignon blanc, and buying way too many shoes.
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May 23, 2025
What a phenomenal poetry debut!!!
May 28, 2023
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I loved this
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