Sky Lee

Sky Lee

Sky Lee (zh-s|s=李羣英); born 1952 is a Canadian artist and novelist. Born in Port Alberni, British Columbia, Lee has published both feminist fiction and non-fiction.

Moving to Vancouver in 1967 to attend university, she received a B.A. in Fine Arts at the University of British Columbia and a Diploma in Nursing from Douglas College. She became a member of the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop.

Lee was first published as the illustrator of 1983's children's book, "Teach Me to Fly, Skyfighter!". The book is a collection of four stories exploring what it is like to grow up as a Chinese-Canadian in a community with links to both Asian-Canadian and Anglo-Canadian cultures. Reviewer Robert W. Bruinsma argued the book was "modestly illustrated."

Lee's first book, "Disappearing Moon Cafe", published in 1990, explores the Wong family over four generations, as they operate the titled cafe. Nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Governor General's Award, the novel won the City of Vancouver Book Award despite some critics charging that the writing was over-earnest. For example, critic Gary Draper wrote, "Hardly a noun walks free of a trail of adjectives."

In the same year, Lee contributed to the collective prose, "." The book's writing is attributed to the "Telling It Book Collective", of which Lee was a member. The book explores issues of racism and homophobia experienced by native, lesbian and Asian Canadian women.

In 1994, Lee published "", a collection of fifteen short stories that explore a range of feminist themes, with allegories focusing primarily on the "bellydancer," an archetype of survival. The back cover of the book explains: "bellydancing was originally performed at the bedside of women in labor, as an erotic dance of creation."

Her short stories have also appeared in "Vancouver Short Stories" as well as periodicals such as "West Coast Line", "The Asianadian", "Kinethis", and "Makara".

Currently, she lives on Saltspring Island, British Columbia.

Bibliography

*"" (as illustrator, text by Paul Yee) - 1983
*"Disappearing Moon Cafe" - 1990
*"" - 1990 (with Betsy Warland, Lee Maracle and Daphne Marlatt) Press Gang Publishers
*"" - 1994


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