Mercedes Eng is a Prairie-born mixee of Chinese and settler descent, teaching and writing in classrooms and in community. She lives in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the x¿m¿¿k¿¿y¿¿m (Musqueam), S¿wx¿wú7mesh (Squamish), and s¿l¿ilw¿tä¿ (Tsleil-Waututh) Peoples. Eng¿s praxis constellates experiential knowledge, community organizing, informal study, and a hybrid poetics that deploys multiple forms/ideas of language from theory to memoir to historical and government documents to photography and visual art. Author of Mercenary English (CUE Books 2013; Mercenary Press 2016; Talonbooks 2018), a long poem about violence and resistance in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood of Vancouver, and Prison Industrial Complex Explodes (Talonbooks 2017), winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, her writing has appeared in Jacket 2, The Downtown East, The Volcano, on the sides of the Burrard and Granville Bridges as contributions to public art projects, and in the collectively produced chapbooks, r/ally (No One Is Illegal), and Surveillance and M¿aidez (Press Release). She is at work on a women¿s prison reader and a detective novel set in her grandfather¿s Chinatown supper club, circa 1948.
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