Background
Sky Lee (born Sharon Kwun Ying Lee) was born on September 15, 1952 in Portuguese Alberni, British Columbia, Canada. Her mother, Wong Mowe Oi, was a homemaker and her father, Lee Gwei Chang, was a millworker.
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
Sky Lee moved to Vancouver in 1967, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in fine arts from the University of British Columbia.
700 Royal Ave, New Westminster, BC V3M 5Z5, Canada
Sky Lee received a Diploma in nursing from Douglas College.
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Disappearing Moon Cafe was a stunning debut novel that has become a Canadian literary classic. An unflinchingly honest portrait of a Chinese Canadian family that pulses with life and moral tensions, this family saga takes the reader from the wilderness in nineteenth-century British Columbia to late twentieth-century Hong Kong, to Vancouver’s Chinatown.
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1990
Sky Lee (born Sharon Kwun Ying Lee) was born on September 15, 1952 in Portuguese Alberni, British Columbia, Canada. Her mother, Wong Mowe Oi, was a homemaker and her father, Lee Gwei Chang, was a millworker.
Sky Lee moved to Vancouver in 1967, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in fine arts from the University of British Columbia. She also received a Diploma in nursing from Douglas College.
Sky Lee has published both feminist fiction and non-fiction. She moved to Vancouver in 1967.
When she was working for the Mazara Magazine, Lee was first published as an illustrator of Paul Yee's Teach Me to Fly, Skyfighter! (1983), a collection of 4 stories for children. However, reviewer Robert West Bruinsma argued the book was "modestly illustrated".
Lee received great critical and commercial success with the publication of her first novel "Disappearing Moon Cafe" which was published in 1990. In the same year, Lee contributed to the collective prose "Telling it: women and language across culture".
In 1994, Lee published "Bellydancer: Stories", a collection of 15 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".
Besides, her short stories have also appeared in Vancouver Short Stories as well as periodicals such as West Coast Lincolnshire, The Asianadian, Kinethis, and Makara.
After living in Vancouver for many years, Sky Lee now resides in Montreal, Quebec, actively engaged in Asian Canadian Workshops.
(Disappearing Moon Cafe was a stunning debut novel that ha...)
1990As a Chinese Canadian, Sky Lee associates her works with her background, which was a minority in a community where she was left with few chances of exploring out of her household because of her identity, her racial status and social position.
Sky Lee has been a member of the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop.
Lee identifies as lesbian.
Sky Lee has a son.