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S2EP5 Isabella Wang

On Losing a Language & Poetry in Grief

Isabella is the author of November, November (Nightwood 2025), Pebble Swing (Nightwood, 2021), a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and the chapbook On Forgetting a Language (Baseline Press, 2019). Among other recognitions, she has been shortlisted for Arc's Poem of the Year Contest, The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for Poetry and Long Poem Contest, Minola Review’s Inaugural Poetry Contest, and was the youngest writer to be shortlisted twice for The New Quarterly’s Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest. Wang’s poetry and prose have appeared in over thirty literary journals and five anthologies, including Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis (Coach House Books, 2020), They Rise Like a Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets (Blue Oak Press, 2021), The Spirits Have Nothing to Do with Us: New Chinese-Canadian Writers Fiction (Wolask & Wynn 2022). She is finishing her MA in Sociology, and directs her own non-profit editing and mentorship program, Revise-Revision Street. 

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