born 1994, Vancouver, bc, Canada | writer
Sheung-King was born in Vancouver and grew up in Hong Kong. His debut novel, You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked., was a finalist for the 2021 Governor General’s Award and the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award, longlisted for CBC’s Canada Reads 2021, and named one of the best book debuts of 2020 by The Globe and Mail. Batshit Seven, his second novel, is the winner of the 2024 Writers’ Trust Atwood Gibson Fiction Prize and a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2024. He forms an artist duo with JeeMin Kim. Their project, Displaced Nostalgia, is an interdisciplinary art project that combines installation, writing, and performance. It has been performed internationally, including at the 2024 Hong Kong Art Basel.
Education
Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing, University of Guelph, Toronto, ON, Canada. 2016 - 2018