Kim Fu
Canadian writer

Kim Fu

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Canadian writer
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1987(Vancouver, Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
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University of British Columbia
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Kim Fu (born 1987) is a Canadian-born writer, living in Seattle, Washington. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia to immigrant parents from Hong Kong, Fu studied creative writing at the University of British Columbia.

Her first novel For Today I Am a Boy won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award. It was also a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and long-listed for CBC's Canada Reads. Fu's debut poetry collection How Festive the Ambulance received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly, and includes a 2017 National Magazine Awards Silver Medal winner and a Best Canadian Poetry 2016 selection.

Fu's writing has appeared in Granta, the Atlantic, the New York Times, Hazlitt, and the Times Literary Supplement. She has received residency fellowships from the Ucross Foundation, Berton House, Wildacres, and the Wallace Stegner Grant for the Arts.

Her most recent novel, The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, was published in February 2018.

Published works

Title Year Published Publisher Notes
For Today I Am a Boy 2014 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award

Winner of the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

Longlisted for Canada Reads

Shortlisted for Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award

Shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction

How Festive the Ambulance: Poems 2016 Nightwood Editions 2017 National Magazine Awards Silver Medal winner

Best Canadian Poetry 2016 selection

The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore 2018 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt