Judy fong bates biography

Chinese–Canadian author

Judy Fong Bates (born December 22, ) is a Chinese Canadian author. She is a recipient of the Alex Award.

Biography

Born in Kaiping, Guangdong, she immigrated to Canada with her mother in to reunite with her father in Allandale, Ontario.^[2] The family subsequently moved to Acton, Ontario where she spent most of her adolescence,^[3][4] eventually graduating from Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute.^[5] She obtained her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Guelph,^[5] which was later followed by a Bachelor of Education from the University of Toronto.^[2] She was a teacher with the Toronto Board of Education for twenty years,^[6] working at the Garden Avenue and Fern Avenue public schools,^[7] and has also taught creative writing at the University of Toronto and Trent University.^[6]

Works and honours

In , she published Midnight at the Dragon C