Jenny Heijun Wills

Jenny Heijun Wills is a Canadian writer, whose memoir Older Sister, Not Necessarily Related won the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction in 2019.[1]

Born in South Korea, she was adopted by a Canadian family in infancy and was raised in Southern Ontario.[2] The memoir is about her experience meeting her birth family for the first time as an adult.[3]

She is a professor of English at the University of Winnipeg.[2]

References
  1. Deborah Dundas, "Andre Alexis, Jenny Heijun Wills are big winners at Writers’ Trust Awards". Toronto Star, November 5, 2019.
  2. Nyala Ali, "Adoption experience frays fraught family bonds". Winnipeg Free Press, October 26, 2019.
  3. Jane van Koeverden, "Why Jenny Heijun Wills wrote a book about reuniting with her first family in Korea". CBC Books, October 18, 2019.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.