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Ann Shin


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Ann Shin, film poster.

Ann Shin, film poster.

Ann Shin, bookcover.

Ann Shin, portrait.

Event: Storytellers: Literature and Film

Bio: Raised on a farm in BC's Fraser Valley, Ann Shin now lives in Toronto with her husband and two daughters. Her latest book of poetry, The Family China, published by Brick Books in May 2013, won the Anne Green Award. Also an award-winning filmmaker and new media producer, Ann's latest short documentary premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and was selected into Hotdocs Film Festival. Her previous documentary Defector: Escape from North Korea won Best Documentary and Best Documentary Director at the 2014 Canadian Screen Awards.

Book: The Family China

Summary: In The Family China, her second book of poems, Ann Shin examines the decentering experiences of migration, loss and death, and the impulse to build anew. In five suites threaded through with footnote-like fragments that haunt and ambush the text like memories, the book accrues associations, building and transforming images from poem to poem, creating a layered and cohesive collection that asks daring questions about how we define ourselves.