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Jamie Chai Yun Liew

Jamie Chai Yun Liew is a lawyer, law professor and podcaster based in Ottawa. Dandelion is her first novel, which won her the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award from the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop. She also wrote the nonfiction book Ghost Citizens. Liew was named one of CBC Books writers to watch in 2022.

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    Where I Write

    Jamie Chai Yun Liew writes while she waits — at the soccer field, the passport office, wherever

    The author of Dandelion and Canada Reads finalist says her desk is not always a creative space. Increasingly, she works wherever she finds herself waiting, 'in between the places' she and her family need to be.