Chinese Canadian author and poet Catherine Lewis (she/her/hers) is a finalist for the Bisexual Book Awards’ Bi Writer of the Year.
Her debut chapbook Zipless (845 Press), currently in its fourth printing, is a finalist for the Bisexual Book Award for Poetry.
Recently featured at Word Vancouver and the Poets Corner Reading Series, she has been interviewed on Vancouver Co-op Radio’s Wax Poetic.
Longlisted for the 2023 CBC Poetry Prize, first runner-up for Pulp Literature’s 2023 Magpie Award for Poetry, Honourable Mention for Surrey Muse’s 2023 Susan Crean Award for Nonfiction, and longlisted for Surrey Muse’s 2022 Joy Kogawa Award for Fiction, Catherine has been a finalist in creative nonfiction contests hosted by The Fiddlehead, Room Magazine, and The Humber Literary Review. She was nominated for a 2024 Pushcart Prize.
Her work has been featured in The Fiddlehead, PRISM international, The Humber Literary Review, Pulp Literature, and Plenitude Magazine.
A graduate of the Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University and of the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive, she is a two-time Banff Centre Literary Arts alumna and a 2025 Tin House Winter Online Workshop alumna.
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Canada, she lives in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, where she serves as President of Vancouver Poetry House, the largest spoken word organization in Canada.
She is a Full Member of the League of Canadian Poets and of the Writers’ Union of Canada.
In her spare time, she enjoys sushi, sauvignon blanc, and buying way too many shoes.
Author photo by Jennifer Williams