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About

Jamie Chai Yun Liew (she/her) is the author of DANDELION, her first novel, and GHOST CITIZENS, a non-fiction book about how the colonial and legal condition of statelessness is created and maintained. She is the recipient of the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop (ACWW) Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award. Jamie is also a lawyer, professor, and podcaster specializing in immigration, refugee and citizenship law. Her award-winning podcast, Migration Conversations, features experts, migrants and writers. With Hakka, Hainanese and Nyonya roots in Southeast Asia, one of Jamie’s pastimes is to cook and eat SE Asian hawker fare including laksa and char kuey teow. She lives in Ottawa, Algonquin Anishinaabe territory, with her family.

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