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.

Refugees once again have full health benefits, but some practitioners still don't know that
It's been over a year since the Trudeau government reversed cuts to refugee health care. Some still aren't getting the services they need.
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