Rita Wong

Rita Wong lives and works on unceded Coast Salish territories, also known as Vancouver, where she attends to questions of water justice, decolonization, ecology, and climate justice. Co-editor of the anthology Downstream: Reimagining Water with Dorothy Christian, Wong is the author of several books of poetry—current, climate; beholden (with Fred Wah), undercurrent, perpetual (with Cindy Mochizuki), sybil unrest (with Larissa Lai), forage (awarded the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and Canada Reads Poetry 2011), and monkeypuzzle.