Lindsay Wong

Lindsay Wong is a Canadian writer, whose memoir The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family was published in 2018.

[1] The book, a humorous memoir about her Chinese Canadian family's history of mental illness,[2] won the 2019 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize[3] and was a shortlisted finalist for the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.

[4] Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia,[5] Wong wrote the book while pursuing graduate studies at Columbia University in New York City.

[1][6] The Woo-Woo was selected for the 2019 edition of Canada Reads, where it was defended by Joe Zee,[7] and was longlisted for the 2019 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.

[8] Wong's latest book, Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality: Stories, came out in 2023 to great acclaim.