Anna Quon
Writer and emerging filmmaker Anna Quon has worked in the not-for-profit sector for more than two decades, except for several years as a freelance journalist. Mad, mixed-race and middle-aged, Anna has loved writing since she was a child, but depression, psychosis and perfectionism blocked her way for many years. In her mid 30’s Anna began to create poetry again, which she self-published in a number of small chapbooks before writing a novel, a dream since her high school days. Her first traditionally-published poetry chapbook, Body Parts was released in 2021 by Gaspereau Press and her latest novel Where the Silver River Ends found a home with Invisible Publishing in 2022, making a trilogy with her first two novels Low (2013) and Migration Songs (2009). Anna is the current Poet Laureate for Halifax.