Julia Lin was born in Taiwan and lived there and in Vietnam before her family immigrated to Canada when she was nine. Since then, Julia has lived in Vancouver, Toronto, and northern British Columbia. She holds a graduate degree in Immunology (M.Sc., University of Toronto) and a post-graduate degree in computing education (University of British Columbia.) Her writing mentor, M.G. Vassanji, encouraged her to complete the short story collection, Miah, after she submitted the first stories in the Humber Creative Writing Program. She was on the Executive of The Writers’ Union of Canada from 2016 to 2022 and is a past board member of the Vancouver Public Library as well as the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop.

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