CURRICULUM VITAE
Writer, editor, mentor, poet, academic rebel. I am grateful to conduct my work and collaborations as an immigrant settler on the traditional, unceded and unsurrendered territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, Stölo and Tseil-Waututh peoples.
EDUCATION
B.A. English. Simon Fraser University, Canada — May 2023
B.A. World Literatures and Languages. Simon Fraser University, Canada — May 2023
LANGUAGE SKILLS
English: reading, writing, speaking fluent proficiency.
Mandarin Chinese: reading, speaking, understanding fluent proficiency.
French: reading, understanding proficiency.
Farsi: early learner’s proficiency.
ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCES
05/2022 – 09/2022 Research Assistant, poetry in canada, SFU English.
05/2021 – 09/2021 Web Designer, poetry in canada, SFU English Century Drama, SFU English.
01/2020 – 04/2020 Research Assistant, Oecologies, SFU English.
06/2019 – 06 2020 Work Study, SpokenWeb, SFU English.
06/2019 – 08/2019 Social Media Assistant, SFU Student Success and Strategic Support Division.
10/2019 – 11/2019 Arts Writer, The Peak, SFU Student Newspaper.
01/2019-03/2019 Conference Moderator, SFU World Literature Undergraduate Conference.
01/2019-03/2019 Academic Associate, SFU World Literature Undergraduate Conference.
01/2018-03/2018 Board Committee, SFU World Literature Undergraduate Conference.
LITERARY AND ARTISTIC EXPERIENCES
[1] ROOM MAGAZINE
05/2019+ Web Content Coordinator, Room magazine, Canada
03/2019+ Submissions Coordinator, Room magazine, Canada
10/2018 – 03/2019 Intern, Room magazine, Canada
[2] LITERARY JOURNALS EDITED
03/2022+ Assistent Editor. “Around the Table,” edited by Michelle Ha. Issue 46.1. Vancouver, BC: Room magazine, 2022
07/2020 – 04/2021 Lead Editor. “City Rhythms,” edited by Isabella Wang. Issue 44.2. Vancouver, BC: Room magazine, 2021
07/2019 – 06/2021 Assistant Editor. “Twine,” edited by Geffen Semach. Issue 42.2. Vancouver, BC: Room magazine, 2021
10/2018 – 01/2019 Shadow Editor. “Magic,” edited by Arielle Spence. Issue 42.1. Vancouver, BC: Room Magazine, 2019.
[3] GROWING ROOM: A FEMINIST LITERARY FESTIVAL
10/2019 – 03/2020 Youth Programmer / Host, The Growing Room Literary Festival, Canada.
09/2017 – 03/2018 Programming Committee: Festival Intern / Interviews Coordinator / Youth Program Consultant, The Growing Room Literary Festival, Canada.
[4] MENTORSHIPS AND COLLABORATIONS
06/2023 Workshop Facilitator: “Fire+Water,” FEELed Lab UBC Oakanagan, Wood Haven Eco Cultural Centre
10/2022 Workshop Facilitator: “Where We Are Now: Poetry’s Place and Return to the Returning Body,” Quebec Writers Federation.
09/2022 + Curriculum Co-developer: “Rewriting Ourselves: Community-Based Creative Writing Workshops for Psychiatric Survivors and
Psychiatric Patients.” With Lucas Crawford, Kai Cheng Thom, Daniel Scott Tisdale.
03/2022 Co-judge, Archibald Lampman Award, ARC Poetry Magazine, Ottawa.
03/2022 Workshop Facilitator: “Where We Are Now: Poetry’s Place and Return to the Returning Body,” Massy Arts Society, Vancouver, BC.
01/2022 – 02/2022 Workshop Co-Facilitator with Stephen Collis: “Shifting Perspectives,” SFU Art Gallery.
2/2021 – 03/2022 Judge, The Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize, New Brunswick Book Awards.
01/2021+ Youth Highschool Poetry Mentor, Vancouver Poetry House.
09/2018+ Co-ordinator, Dead Poets Reading Series, Vancouver Public Library. (On haitus since 2020 due to the pandemic)
01/2021 – 07/2021 Co-judge, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, Yukon & BC Book Prizes.
04/2021 Workshop Facilitator: “Poets Forward,” Verses Festival, Vancouver Poetry House.
10/2020-12/2020 Poetry and Creative Non-Fiction Mentor, Word Camp Mentorship Program, Vancouver Poetry House.
11/2020 Workshop Facilitator: “Poets Forward,” Word Camp Virtual Series, Vancouver Poetry House.
03/2019 Youth Workshop Facilitator: “Poetic Play,” Gibsons Public Library.
08/2018 – 09/2019 Youth Advocate and Social Media Coordinator, Federation of BC Writers.
07/2018 – 10/2018 Co-ordinator, Books on the Radio, Vancouver, B.C.
ACADEMIC AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2021 Capi Blanchet Annual Scholarship in Fiction, SFU English, Department Nominated. ($1000).
2021 VP Research – Undergraduate Student Research Award. SFU Social Sciences and Humanities. ($3000).
2020 Roy Miki Award in Creative Writing, SFU English, Department Nominated ($1200).
2019 Fall; 2020 Spring; 2020 Fall; 2021 Spring; 2021 Summer Undergraduate Open Scholarship. Simon Fraser University. ($700-$1400).
LITERARY AWARDS AND HONOURS
2022 Finalist: Pebble Swing, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, Yukon and BC Book Prizes.
2021 Shortlist: “Occupational Hazard,” Arc Poetry Magazine, Poem of the Year Award.
2021 Shortlist: “Bodies-Parentheses,” The Malahat Review, Long Poem Contest.
2020 Shortlist: “Synapses & Grass,” The Malahat Review, Far Horizons Poetry Contest
2019 Shortlist: “Pebble Swing,” Minola Review, Inaugural Poetry Contest
2019 Award Nomination: “Ghazal for Phyllis Webb,” Minola Review, Best New Poets
2019 Award Nomination: “Ghazal for Phyllis Webb,” Minola Review, Best of the Net
2019 Award Nomination: "Lunar Feast,” The /tEmz/ Review, Pushcart Prize
2018 Shortlist: “Rain Clouds,” The New Quarterly, Edna Staebler Essay Contest.
2017 Shortlist: “Shortcomings of a Juvenile,” The New Quarterly, Edna Staebler Essay Contest.
BOOK (Poetry)
Wang, Isabella. Pebble Swing. BC: Nightwood Editions, 2021.
In-progress: Choreography of Forgetting
In-progress: November, November
CHAPBOOK (Poetry)
Wang, Isabella. On Forgetting a Language. Ontario, Baseline Press, 2019.
ANTHOLOGIES
"On Forgetting a Language" and "Springtime Ghazals. What You Need to Know About. The Hawkins Project, co-founded by Dave Eggers. 2022
"Coal Flowers." The Spirits Have Nothing to Do With Us: New Chinese-Canadian Writers Fiction Anthology, edited by Dan Woo. Ontario: Wolask & Wynn Press, forthcoming 2022
"Spawning Grounds.” They Rise Like A Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets, edited by Christine Kitano and Alycia Pirmohamed. USA: Blue Oak Press, 2021.
"Spawning Grounds.” Watershed Anthology, edited by Kathryn Mockler. Ontario: Coach House Books 2020.
"The City I've Already Written," A Journey Across New Westminster by Word: A Poetry of Place, edited by Alan Hill. BC: New Westminster Arts Services Department, 2020.
LITERARY JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
[1] CREATIVE-NONFICTION
“Memory Home Lane.” The Fiddlehead 292: “creative nonfiction issue.” Summer 2022.
"Rain Clouds." The New Quarterly 154: “In Need of Rescue.” Apr 2022.
"SFU: Student Tips for Surviving Life on Campus." Maclean’s Universities Guidebook. Spring 2020.
"Eleven Stops Until I'm Halfway Home." From the Voices FOLD. The Festival of Literary Diversity. May 2019.
"SFU: Student Tips for Surviving Life on Campus.” Maclean’s Universities Guidebook. Apr 2019.
"Closer Still: On Reading What I Could Not Understand." Invisible Blog. Nov 2018. Web.
"Eleven Stops Until I'm Halfway Home." Carte Blanche 34: “Blank Page.” Oct 2018.
"When One Dream Fails.” SFU English Blog, September 2018. Web.
"A Certain Light." Learn Writing Essentials: Life in Canlit, Jul 2018. Web.
“Shortcomings of a Juvenile.” The New Quarterly 146: “If on the Way You Wander.” Mar 2018.
[2] POETRY
“Soft.” EVENT Poetry & Prose, forthcoming.
忘1, “Forgetting.” EVENT Poetry & Prose, forthcoming.
“Springtime Ghazals.” Poetry in Transit: Bus Card. The Association of Book Publishers of BC and Translink. 2022-23 Program.
“Untitled: for Otoniya Okot Bitek.” SFU Art Gallery. Nov 2022. Web.
“Two Imperfect Sestinas (for Phyllis Webb’s 95th birthday).” Co-authored with Stephen Collis. Periodicities. Apr 2022.
“Goodbye.” The Lyre 12: “New Normal.” Nov 2021.
"Occupational Hazard." Arc Poetry Magazine 92: “Reaching Through,” 92. Summer 2021.
拼图, “Puzzle.” The Capilano Review 3.44. Summer 2021.
梦想, “Dream.” The Capilano Review 3.44. Summer 2021.
筷子, "Chopsticks." Room magazine 44.1: “Growing Room.” Mar 2021.
“Hindsight.” Canadian Literature 242: “Emerging Scholars, Redux.” Jan 2021.
“Serenade No. 1 in Sunflowers.” Prism International 59.2. Dec 2020.
“I Remember.” The/tEmz/Review 13. Nov 2020.
“Dramatic Monologue.” The/tEmz/Review 13. Nov 2020
“Ghazal XI after John Thompson.” Periodicities. Nov 2020. Web.
“Pebble Swing.” The Fiddlehead 284, Oct 2020.
“Springtime Ghazals.” Arc Poetry Magazine 92: “Moments of Elemental Change.” Jul 2020.
"Ghazal for My Grandmother." Prairie Fire 41.1: “Why We Walk.” Jun 2020.
"Ghazal for Heirloom Family Recipes." Prairie Fire 41.1: “Why We Walk.” Jun 2020.
“This is Spring.” Grain 47.3: “Reflections in the Water.” Apr 2020.
"Ghazal No.7 for Rita Wong." Watch Your Head, Oct 2019. Web.
"Spawning Grounds: four poems." Watch Your Head, Oct 2019. Web.
"New Growth." The Lyre 10: “(dis)connection.” Oct 2019.
"Middle Cove." The Lyre 10: “(dis)connection.” Oct 2019.
"Ghazal for Phyllis Webb." Minola Review 22. Jul 2019. Web.
“Ghazal for the New Year.” The Puritan, May 2019. Web.
"Spawning Grounds." GEEZ Magazine 52: "The Poetics of Resistance.” Apr 2019.
"Lunar Feast." WordWorks Magazine. Apr 2019.
"Sandcastle Bucket." Contemporary Verse 2 41.4: “Poetry Only.” Apr 2019.
"Listen." Contemporary Verse 2 41.4: “Poetry Only.” Apr 2019.
"Shoreline." Contemporary Verse 2 41.4: “Poetry Only.” Apr 2019.
"Expecting." canthius 6: “transformative kinships.” Feb 2019.
"It's Been Weeks of Forest Fires." Plenitude Magazine. Dec 2018. Web.
"Lunar Feast.” The/tEmz/Review 5. Oct 2018. Web.
"On Forgetting a Language.” The/tEmz/Review 5. Oct 2018. Web.
"Late." Room: “Turtle Island Responds.” Sept 2018. Web.
"Grace." Train Journal 3. Oct 2018.
“Redemption." Train Journal 3. Oct 2018.
"Burned Out.” Loose Leaf magazine 5. May 2018
BOOK REVIEWS
One and Half of You, by Leanne Dunic 2021. The Capilano Review.
“Couplets of Inspired Brushstrokes”: Gold in the Shadow: Twenty-Two Ghazals and a Cento for Phyllis Webb, by Diana Hayes 2021. The Ormsby
Review.
“Called to the Poethood”: Another Mountain to Climb, by Danny Peart. Milagro Press, 2017. The Ormsby Review.
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
05/2023 “Vancouver Women’s Bookstore Reunion: Part 2,” ACCUTE Colloquium, York University.
01/2020. Moderator: “Arts and Defiance: Narratives of Disobedience,” World Literature and Languages Undergraduate Conference, SFU.
10/2019. Joanne Brown Symposium on Violence and Its Alternatives: Resisting State Violence and the Violence of Capital, Bowen Island.
06/2019. Eleven Stops Until I’m Half Way Home,” SFU English Grad Conference: “Taking Up Spaces.”
05/2019 "Vancouver Women's Bookstore Reunion: Legacy of Canada's First Feminist Bookstore Through Multimedia Archives," SpokenWeb
Symposium, Simon Fraser University.
SELECT PANELS AND LITERARY PRESENTATIONS
(79 Invited Readings and Panels Total since 2017)
01/2023 Co-Reader. With Alycia Pirmohamed. Massy Arts Society.
11/2022 Panelist: “The Fantastic and the Mundane.” Fraser Valley Literary Festival.
10/2022 Guest Speaker for Pebble Swing. Creative Reading. Taught by Dr. Lillian Allen. OCAD University.
10/2022 Toronto & Montreal Book Tour: “Down The Road, and a World Away: Readings by Writers from Near and Far.” Sponsored by QWF.
09/2022 Moderator: “Fluctuations and Migrations: Joanne Leow and Tolu Olurontoba.” Word Vancouver.
09/2022 Panelist. “Queer Asian Poetry,” Word Vancouver.
09/2022 Panelist. Lunch Poems. Simon Fraser University.
08/2022 Panelist. Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts.
07/2022 Panelist: “The Calling Card Project.” UBC MFA Summer Residency Program.
07/2022 Co-Host: Natalie Lim & kitchen mckeown Chapbook Launch. SFU English.
06/2022 Guest Speaker for Pebble Swing. ENGL 272: Creative Reading. Taught by Dr. David Chariandy. SFU English.
06/2022 Guest Speaker. Trail Secondary School. Yukon and BC Book Prizes.
06/2022 Guest Speaker (2 sessions). Fernie Secondary School. Yukon and BC Book Prizes.
06/2022 Guest Speaker (2 sessions). Magee Secondary School. Yukon and BC Book Prizes.
06/2022 Guest Speaker. Charles Hayes Secondary School. Yukon and BC Book Prizes.
06/2022 Featured Reader. Planet Earth Poetry Series. Russell Books.
05/2022 Guest Speaker. Golden Secondary School. Yukon and BC Book Prizes.
11/2021 Guest Speaker for Pebble Swing. ENGL 374: Creative Writing. Taught by Dr. Stephen Collis. SFU English.
11/2021 Panelist: "Mentorship: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly." The Wild Writers Literary Festival.
10/2021 Moderator / Host: Umbilical Chord, by Hasan Namir, Book Launch. Massy Arts Society.
10/2021 Presenter: "Forest-Poet Tree Walk." Victoria Festival of Authors.
09/2021 Panelist: "In Conversation with Isabella Wang and Linda Rui Feng." Word on the Street.
08/2021 Guest Performer: "Poetry for the Summer." Chalmer's Lodge senior home.
08/2021 Featured Author. Salt Spring Public Library.
07/2021 Panelist. Writer's Showcase for Vancouver Pride Society.
07/2021 Moderator. Issue 44.2 "City Rhythms." Room magazine Launch Party.
04/2021 Panelist: "Stage to Page." Verses Festival of Words.
11/2020 Panelist: "Poetry on the Front Lines," Verses Forward. Canadian Literature.
11/2020 Presenter: “Building Your Literary Community Online,” The Wild Writers Literary Festival.
09/2020 Panelist: "What Keeps Us Writing" and "The Poetics of Language." Word Vancouver.
09/2020 Panelist: In/Verse. Federation of BC Writers.
03/2019 Host: Youth Reading. Growing Room Literary Festival.
FEATURED INTERVIEWS
03/2022 Read Local BC: “A Woven Basket with Others.” Interviewed by Rob Taylor.
07/2021 The Peak: “Poetry is Like Being at Home.” Interviewed by Kelly Chia
07/2021 For Victoria Festival of Authors. Interviewed by Jennifer Mann.
12/2019 canthius: “I’m Doing This Work With People in Mind.” Interviewed by Manahil Bandukwala.
01/2019 For Train Journal. Interviewed by Adams DW.
08/2018 The New Quarterly: "What You Love.” Interviewed by Susan Scott.
INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED
2022 Forthcoming Interview with Kim Thuy. Room magazine.
10/2021 “Vancouver Writers Fest: Interview with Artistic Director Leslie Hurtig,” Room magazine.
10/2021 “Vancouver Writers Fest: Roundtable Interview with Jillian Christmas & Francesca Ekwuyasi,” Room magazine.
10/2021 “Vancouver Writers Fest: Interview with Laishai Peel,” Room magazine.
10/2021 “Vancouver Writers Fest: Interview with Andrea Bennett,” Room magazine.
12/2020 “Hush Harbour Press: Interview with Whitney French and Alannah Johnson,” Room magazine.
08/2020 “Aria: Interview with Nazanine Hozar,” Room magazine.
03/2020. “In Conversation with Our Future: Six Young Writers on Their Creativity and Communities,” Room Magazine.
03/2020. “Turn This World Inside Out: Interview with Naava Smolash,” Room magazine.
07/2019 “Mistakes to Run With: Interview with Yasuko Thanh,” Room magazine.
07/2019. “On Navigating the Publishing Industry: Interview with Natalie Lim, Chimedum Ohaegbu, Stephanie Chang, Mikayla Ruppe,” Prism International.
06/2019. “On Spoken Word Poetry & Community: Interview with LJ Weisberg, Susan Yanez, Emma Field, Salena Weiner,” Prism International.
06/2019 “Griffen Poetry Prize Winner: Interview with Eve Joseph,” Room magazine.
03/2019 “Before I was a Critic I was a Human Being: Interview with Amy Fung,” Room magazine.
02/2019 – 03/2019 “Excited About Everything Series.” Growing Room Literary Festival. 17 Interviews and roundtable interviews with Alex Leslie, David Ly, Onjana Yawnghwe, LJ Weisberg, Alicia Elliot, Susan Scott, Eden Robinson, Katherena Vermette, Jen Sookfong Lee, Canisia Lubrin, Whitney French, Triny Finlay, Lucas Crawford, Arielle Twist, Serena Bhandar, Emily Riddle, jaye simpson, Jessica Johns, Patricia Massy, Kathy Mak, Raquel Milosavljevic, Neko Smart, Elliot Scott-Bigsby, and Golsa Golestaneh. Room magazine.
PODCASTS
05/2022 CFMU Get Lit 286 – With Ellie Sawatzky and Isabella Wang
12/2021 Glass Books Radio 30 – Isabella Wang
11/2021 Can’t Lit 101 – Ellie Sawatzky and Isabella Wang
09/2019 Page Fright 8 – Isabella Wang
09/2018 “A Certain Light,” Book on the Radio
Writer, editor, mentor, poet, academic rebel. I am grateful to conduct my work and collaborations as an immigrant settler on the traditional, unceded and unsurrendered territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, Stölo and Tseil-Waututh peoples.
EDUCATION
B.A. English. Simon Fraser University, Canada — May 2023
B.A. World Literatures and Languages. Simon Fraser University, Canada — May 2023
LANGUAGE SKILLS
English: reading, writing, speaking fluent proficiency.
Mandarin Chinese: reading, speaking, understanding fluent proficiency.
French: reading, understanding proficiency.
Farsi: early learner’s proficiency.
ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCES
05/2022 – 09/2022 Research Assistant, poetry in canada, SFU English.
05/2021 – 09/2021 Web Designer, poetry in canada, SFU English Century Drama, SFU English.
01/2020 – 04/2020 Research Assistant, Oecologies, SFU English.
06/2019 – 06 2020 Work Study, SpokenWeb, SFU English.
06/2019 – 08/2019 Social Media Assistant, SFU Student Success and Strategic Support Division.
10/2019 – 11/2019 Arts Writer, The Peak, SFU Student Newspaper.
01/2019-03/2019 Conference Moderator, SFU World Literature Undergraduate Conference.
01/2019-03/2019 Academic Associate, SFU World Literature Undergraduate Conference.
01/2018-03/2018 Board Committee, SFU World Literature Undergraduate Conference.
LITERARY AND ARTISTIC EXPERIENCES
[1] ROOM MAGAZINE
05/2019+ Web Content Coordinator, Room magazine, Canada
03/2019+ Submissions Coordinator, Room magazine, Canada
10/2018 – 03/2019 Intern, Room magazine, Canada
[2] LITERARY JOURNALS EDITED
03/2022+ Assistent Editor. “Around the Table,” edited by Michelle Ha. Issue 46.1. Vancouver, BC: Room magazine, 2022
07/2020 – 04/2021 Lead Editor. “City Rhythms,” edited by Isabella Wang. Issue 44.2. Vancouver, BC: Room magazine, 2021
07/2019 – 06/2021 Assistant Editor. “Twine,” edited by Geffen Semach. Issue 42.2. Vancouver, BC: Room magazine, 2021
10/2018 – 01/2019 Shadow Editor. “Magic,” edited by Arielle Spence. Issue 42.1. Vancouver, BC: Room Magazine, 2019.
[3] GROWING ROOM: A FEMINIST LITERARY FESTIVAL
10/2019 – 03/2020 Youth Programmer / Host, The Growing Room Literary Festival, Canada.
09/2017 – 03/2018 Programming Committee: Festival Intern / Interviews Coordinator / Youth Program Consultant, The Growing Room Literary Festival, Canada.
[4] MENTORSHIPS AND COLLABORATIONS
06/2023 Workshop Facilitator: “Fire+Water,” FEELed Lab UBC Oakanagan, Wood Haven Eco Cultural Centre
10/2022 Workshop Facilitator: “Where We Are Now: Poetry’s Place and Return to the Returning Body,” Quebec Writers Federation.
09/2022 + Curriculum Co-developer: “Rewriting Ourselves: Community-Based Creative Writing Workshops for Psychiatric Survivors and
Psychiatric Patients.” With Lucas Crawford, Kai Cheng Thom, Daniel Scott Tisdale.
03/2022 Co-judge, Archibald Lampman Award, ARC Poetry Magazine, Ottawa.
03/2022 Workshop Facilitator: “Where We Are Now: Poetry’s Place and Return to the Returning Body,” Massy Arts Society, Vancouver, BC.
01/2022 – 02/2022 Workshop Co-Facilitator with Stephen Collis: “Shifting Perspectives,” SFU Art Gallery.
2/2021 – 03/2022 Judge, The Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize, New Brunswick Book Awards.
01/2021+ Youth Highschool Poetry Mentor, Vancouver Poetry House.
09/2018+ Co-ordinator, Dead Poets Reading Series, Vancouver Public Library. (On haitus since 2020 due to the pandemic)
01/2021 – 07/2021 Co-judge, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, Yukon & BC Book Prizes.
04/2021 Workshop Facilitator: “Poets Forward,” Verses Festival, Vancouver Poetry House.
10/2020-12/2020 Poetry and Creative Non-Fiction Mentor, Word Camp Mentorship Program, Vancouver Poetry House.
11/2020 Workshop Facilitator: “Poets Forward,” Word Camp Virtual Series, Vancouver Poetry House.
03/2019 Youth Workshop Facilitator: “Poetic Play,” Gibsons Public Library.
08/2018 – 09/2019 Youth Advocate and Social Media Coordinator, Federation of BC Writers.
07/2018 – 10/2018 Co-ordinator, Books on the Radio, Vancouver, B.C.
ACADEMIC AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2021 Capi Blanchet Annual Scholarship in Fiction, SFU English, Department Nominated. ($1000).
2021 VP Research – Undergraduate Student Research Award. SFU Social Sciences and Humanities. ($3000).
2020 Roy Miki Award in Creative Writing, SFU English, Department Nominated ($1200).
2019 Fall; 2020 Spring; 2020 Fall; 2021 Spring; 2021 Summer Undergraduate Open Scholarship. Simon Fraser University. ($700-$1400).
LITERARY AWARDS AND HONOURS
2022 Finalist: Pebble Swing, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, Yukon and BC Book Prizes.
2021 Shortlist: “Occupational Hazard,” Arc Poetry Magazine, Poem of the Year Award.
2021 Shortlist: “Bodies-Parentheses,” The Malahat Review, Long Poem Contest.
2020 Shortlist: “Synapses & Grass,” The Malahat Review, Far Horizons Poetry Contest
2019 Shortlist: “Pebble Swing,” Minola Review, Inaugural Poetry Contest
2019 Award Nomination: “Ghazal for Phyllis Webb,” Minola Review, Best New Poets
2019 Award Nomination: “Ghazal for Phyllis Webb,” Minola Review, Best of the Net
2019 Award Nomination: "Lunar Feast,” The /tEmz/ Review, Pushcart Prize
2018 Shortlist: “Rain Clouds,” The New Quarterly, Edna Staebler Essay Contest.
2017 Shortlist: “Shortcomings of a Juvenile,” The New Quarterly, Edna Staebler Essay Contest.
BOOK (Poetry)
Wang, Isabella. Pebble Swing. BC: Nightwood Editions, 2021.
In-progress: Choreography of Forgetting
In-progress: November, November
CHAPBOOK (Poetry)
Wang, Isabella. On Forgetting a Language. Ontario, Baseline Press, 2019.
ANTHOLOGIES
"On Forgetting a Language" and "Springtime Ghazals. What You Need to Know About. The Hawkins Project, co-founded by Dave Eggers. 2022
"Coal Flowers." The Spirits Have Nothing to Do With Us: New Chinese-Canadian Writers Fiction Anthology, edited by Dan Woo. Ontario: Wolask & Wynn Press, forthcoming 2022
"Spawning Grounds.” They Rise Like A Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets, edited by Christine Kitano and Alycia Pirmohamed. USA: Blue Oak Press, 2021.
"Spawning Grounds.” Watershed Anthology, edited by Kathryn Mockler. Ontario: Coach House Books 2020.
"The City I've Already Written," A Journey Across New Westminster by Word: A Poetry of Place, edited by Alan Hill. BC: New Westminster Arts Services Department, 2020.
LITERARY JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
[1] CREATIVE-NONFICTION
“Memory Home Lane.” The Fiddlehead 292: “creative nonfiction issue.” Summer 2022.
"Rain Clouds." The New Quarterly 154: “In Need of Rescue.” Apr 2022.
"SFU: Student Tips for Surviving Life on Campus." Maclean’s Universities Guidebook. Spring 2020.
"Eleven Stops Until I'm Halfway Home." From the Voices FOLD. The Festival of Literary Diversity. May 2019.
"SFU: Student Tips for Surviving Life on Campus.” Maclean’s Universities Guidebook. Apr 2019.
"Closer Still: On Reading What I Could Not Understand." Invisible Blog. Nov 2018. Web.
"Eleven Stops Until I'm Halfway Home." Carte Blanche 34: “Blank Page.” Oct 2018.
"When One Dream Fails.” SFU English Blog, September 2018. Web.
"A Certain Light." Learn Writing Essentials: Life in Canlit, Jul 2018. Web.
“Shortcomings of a Juvenile.” The New Quarterly 146: “If on the Way You Wander.” Mar 2018.
[2] POETRY
“Soft.” EVENT Poetry & Prose, forthcoming.
忘1, “Forgetting.” EVENT Poetry & Prose, forthcoming.
“Springtime Ghazals.” Poetry in Transit: Bus Card. The Association of Book Publishers of BC and Translink. 2022-23 Program.
“Untitled: for Otoniya Okot Bitek.” SFU Art Gallery. Nov 2022. Web.
“Two Imperfect Sestinas (for Phyllis Webb’s 95th birthday).” Co-authored with Stephen Collis. Periodicities. Apr 2022.
“Goodbye.” The Lyre 12: “New Normal.” Nov 2021.
"Occupational Hazard." Arc Poetry Magazine 92: “Reaching Through,” 92. Summer 2021.
拼图, “Puzzle.” The Capilano Review 3.44. Summer 2021.
梦想, “Dream.” The Capilano Review 3.44. Summer 2021.
筷子, "Chopsticks." Room magazine 44.1: “Growing Room.” Mar 2021.
“Hindsight.” Canadian Literature 242: “Emerging Scholars, Redux.” Jan 2021.
“Serenade No. 1 in Sunflowers.” Prism International 59.2. Dec 2020.
“I Remember.” The/tEmz/Review 13. Nov 2020.
“Dramatic Monologue.” The/tEmz/Review 13. Nov 2020
“Ghazal XI after John Thompson.” Periodicities. Nov 2020. Web.
“Pebble Swing.” The Fiddlehead 284, Oct 2020.
“Springtime Ghazals.” Arc Poetry Magazine 92: “Moments of Elemental Change.” Jul 2020.
"Ghazal for My Grandmother." Prairie Fire 41.1: “Why We Walk.” Jun 2020.
"Ghazal for Heirloom Family Recipes." Prairie Fire 41.1: “Why We Walk.” Jun 2020.
“This is Spring.” Grain 47.3: “Reflections in the Water.” Apr 2020.
"Ghazal No.7 for Rita Wong." Watch Your Head, Oct 2019. Web.
"Spawning Grounds: four poems." Watch Your Head, Oct 2019. Web.
"New Growth." The Lyre 10: “(dis)connection.” Oct 2019.
"Middle Cove." The Lyre 10: “(dis)connection.” Oct 2019.
"Ghazal for Phyllis Webb." Minola Review 22. Jul 2019. Web.
“Ghazal for the New Year.” The Puritan, May 2019. Web.
"Spawning Grounds." GEEZ Magazine 52: "The Poetics of Resistance.” Apr 2019.
"Lunar Feast." WordWorks Magazine. Apr 2019.
"Sandcastle Bucket." Contemporary Verse 2 41.4: “Poetry Only.” Apr 2019.
"Listen." Contemporary Verse 2 41.4: “Poetry Only.” Apr 2019.
"Shoreline." Contemporary Verse 2 41.4: “Poetry Only.” Apr 2019.
"Expecting." canthius 6: “transformative kinships.” Feb 2019.
"It's Been Weeks of Forest Fires." Plenitude Magazine. Dec 2018. Web.
"Lunar Feast.” The/tEmz/Review 5. Oct 2018. Web.
"On Forgetting a Language.” The/tEmz/Review 5. Oct 2018. Web.
"Late." Room: “Turtle Island Responds.” Sept 2018. Web.
"Grace." Train Journal 3. Oct 2018.
“Redemption." Train Journal 3. Oct 2018.
"Burned Out.” Loose Leaf magazine 5. May 2018
BOOK REVIEWS
One and Half of You, by Leanne Dunic 2021. The Capilano Review.
“Couplets of Inspired Brushstrokes”: Gold in the Shadow: Twenty-Two Ghazals and a Cento for Phyllis Webb, by Diana Hayes 2021. The Ormsby
Review.
“Called to the Poethood”: Another Mountain to Climb, by Danny Peart. Milagro Press, 2017. The Ormsby Review.
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
05/2023 “Vancouver Women’s Bookstore Reunion: Part 2,” ACCUTE Colloquium, York University.
01/2020. Moderator: “Arts and Defiance: Narratives of Disobedience,” World Literature and Languages Undergraduate Conference, SFU.
10/2019. Joanne Brown Symposium on Violence and Its Alternatives: Resisting State Violence and the Violence of Capital, Bowen Island.
06/2019. Eleven Stops Until I’m Half Way Home,” SFU English Grad Conference: “Taking Up Spaces.”
05/2019 "Vancouver Women's Bookstore Reunion: Legacy of Canada's First Feminist Bookstore Through Multimedia Archives," SpokenWeb
Symposium, Simon Fraser University.
SELECT PANELS AND LITERARY PRESENTATIONS
(79 Invited Readings and Panels Total since 2017)
01/2023 Co-Reader. With Alycia Pirmohamed. Massy Arts Society.
11/2022 Panelist: “The Fantastic and the Mundane.” Fraser Valley Literary Festival.
10/2022 Guest Speaker for Pebble Swing. Creative Reading. Taught by Dr. Lillian Allen. OCAD University.
10/2022 Toronto & Montreal Book Tour: “Down The Road, and a World Away: Readings by Writers from Near and Far.” Sponsored by QWF.
09/2022 Moderator: “Fluctuations and Migrations: Joanne Leow and Tolu Olurontoba.” Word Vancouver.
09/2022 Panelist. “Queer Asian Poetry,” Word Vancouver.
09/2022 Panelist. Lunch Poems. Simon Fraser University.
08/2022 Panelist. Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts.
07/2022 Panelist: “The Calling Card Project.” UBC MFA Summer Residency Program.
07/2022 Co-Host: Natalie Lim & kitchen mckeown Chapbook Launch. SFU English.
06/2022 Guest Speaker for Pebble Swing. ENGL 272: Creative Reading. Taught by Dr. David Chariandy. SFU English.
06/2022 Guest Speaker. Trail Secondary School. Yukon and BC Book Prizes.
06/2022 Guest Speaker (2 sessions). Fernie Secondary School. Yukon and BC Book Prizes.
06/2022 Guest Speaker (2 sessions). Magee Secondary School. Yukon and BC Book Prizes.
06/2022 Guest Speaker. Charles Hayes Secondary School. Yukon and BC Book Prizes.
06/2022 Featured Reader. Planet Earth Poetry Series. Russell Books.
05/2022 Guest Speaker. Golden Secondary School. Yukon and BC Book Prizes.
11/2021 Guest Speaker for Pebble Swing. ENGL 374: Creative Writing. Taught by Dr. Stephen Collis. SFU English.
11/2021 Panelist: "Mentorship: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly." The Wild Writers Literary Festival.
10/2021 Moderator / Host: Umbilical Chord, by Hasan Namir, Book Launch. Massy Arts Society.
10/2021 Presenter: "Forest-Poet Tree Walk." Victoria Festival of Authors.
09/2021 Panelist: "In Conversation with Isabella Wang and Linda Rui Feng." Word on the Street.
08/2021 Guest Performer: "Poetry for the Summer." Chalmer's Lodge senior home.
08/2021 Featured Author. Salt Spring Public Library.
07/2021 Panelist. Writer's Showcase for Vancouver Pride Society.
07/2021 Moderator. Issue 44.2 "City Rhythms." Room magazine Launch Party.
04/2021 Panelist: "Stage to Page." Verses Festival of Words.
11/2020 Panelist: "Poetry on the Front Lines," Verses Forward. Canadian Literature.
11/2020 Presenter: “Building Your Literary Community Online,” The Wild Writers Literary Festival.
09/2020 Panelist: "What Keeps Us Writing" and "The Poetics of Language." Word Vancouver.
09/2020 Panelist: In/Verse. Federation of BC Writers.
03/2019 Host: Youth Reading. Growing Room Literary Festival.
FEATURED INTERVIEWS
03/2022 Read Local BC: “A Woven Basket with Others.” Interviewed by Rob Taylor.
07/2021 The Peak: “Poetry is Like Being at Home.” Interviewed by Kelly Chia
07/2021 For Victoria Festival of Authors. Interviewed by Jennifer Mann.
12/2019 canthius: “I’m Doing This Work With People in Mind.” Interviewed by Manahil Bandukwala.
01/2019 For Train Journal. Interviewed by Adams DW.
08/2018 The New Quarterly: "What You Love.” Interviewed by Susan Scott.
INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED
2022 Forthcoming Interview with Kim Thuy. Room magazine.
10/2021 “Vancouver Writers Fest: Interview with Artistic Director Leslie Hurtig,” Room magazine.
10/2021 “Vancouver Writers Fest: Roundtable Interview with Jillian Christmas & Francesca Ekwuyasi,” Room magazine.
10/2021 “Vancouver Writers Fest: Interview with Laishai Peel,” Room magazine.
10/2021 “Vancouver Writers Fest: Interview with Andrea Bennett,” Room magazine.
12/2020 “Hush Harbour Press: Interview with Whitney French and Alannah Johnson,” Room magazine.
08/2020 “Aria: Interview with Nazanine Hozar,” Room magazine.
03/2020. “In Conversation with Our Future: Six Young Writers on Their Creativity and Communities,” Room Magazine.
03/2020. “Turn This World Inside Out: Interview with Naava Smolash,” Room magazine.
07/2019 “Mistakes to Run With: Interview with Yasuko Thanh,” Room magazine.
07/2019. “On Navigating the Publishing Industry: Interview with Natalie Lim, Chimedum Ohaegbu, Stephanie Chang, Mikayla Ruppe,” Prism International.
06/2019. “On Spoken Word Poetry & Community: Interview with LJ Weisberg, Susan Yanez, Emma Field, Salena Weiner,” Prism International.
06/2019 “Griffen Poetry Prize Winner: Interview with Eve Joseph,” Room magazine.
03/2019 “Before I was a Critic I was a Human Being: Interview with Amy Fung,” Room magazine.
02/2019 – 03/2019 “Excited About Everything Series.” Growing Room Literary Festival. 17 Interviews and roundtable interviews with Alex Leslie, David Ly, Onjana Yawnghwe, LJ Weisberg, Alicia Elliot, Susan Scott, Eden Robinson, Katherena Vermette, Jen Sookfong Lee, Canisia Lubrin, Whitney French, Triny Finlay, Lucas Crawford, Arielle Twist, Serena Bhandar, Emily Riddle, jaye simpson, Jessica Johns, Patricia Massy, Kathy Mak, Raquel Milosavljevic, Neko Smart, Elliot Scott-Bigsby, and Golsa Golestaneh. Room magazine.
PODCASTS
05/2022 CFMU Get Lit 286 – With Ellie Sawatzky and Isabella Wang
12/2021 Glass Books Radio 30 – Isabella Wang
11/2021 Can’t Lit 101 – Ellie Sawatzky and Isabella Wang
09/2019 Page Fright 8 – Isabella Wang
09/2018 “A Certain Light,” Book on the Radio