Gillian Sze

Gillian Sze is a Canadian writer. She has won one Quebec Writers' Federation Award and been a finalist seven times across four different categories.

Biography Sze's parents are Chinese immigrants, and she grew up speaking the Hokkien dialect of Mandarin at home. She was raised in Winnipeg.

After graduating from high school, Sze studied at the University of Winnipeg for one year to study medicine,

The Night is Deep and Wide received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. The book was also named one of the best children's books of the year by New York Public Library (2021) and Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (2022).

The Globe and Mail included Quiet Night Think: Poems & Essays in their list of the best 100 books of 2022. CBC Books also included in on their "Best Canadian Poetry of 2022" list. +Awards for Sze's writingYearTitleAwardResultRef.2009Fish BonesMcAuslan First Book PrizeShortlist 2011"Like This Together"carte blanche PrizeWinner 2014Peeling RambutanA. M. Klein Prize for PoetryShortlist 2016Redrafting WinterA. M. Klein Prize for PoetryShortlist 2022Quiet Night ThinkA. M. Klein Prize for PoetryShortlist 2022You Are My Favorite ColorJanet Savage Blachford PrizeShortlist

Publications

Children's books

My Love for You Is Always, illustrated by Michelle Lee (2021, Philomel, ) The Night Is Deep and Wide, illustrated by Sue Todd (2021, Orca Books, ) You Are My Favorite Color, illustrated by Niña Mata (2022, Philomel, ) When Sunlight Tiptoes, illustrated by Soyeon Kim (2023, Orca Book Publishers, ) The Little Green Envelope, illustrated by Claudine Crangle (2023, Groundwood) I Drew a Heart, illustrated by Naoko Stoop (2023, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

Poetry

Fish Bones (2009, DC Books, ) The Anatomy of Clay (2011, ECW Press, ) Peeling Rambutan (2014, Gaspereau Press, ) Fricatives (2015, Gaspereau Press, ) Redrafting Winter, with Alison Strumberger (2015, BuschekBooks, ) Panicle (2017, Misfit Book, ) Quiet Night Think: Poems & Essays (2022, Misfit Book, )