Madeleine Thien
Photo from Parry Sound BooksBorn in Vancouver with a family heritage that traces back to Indonesia, novelist and short story writer Madeleine Thien attended Simon Fraser University as a student of dance before switching to UBC to take up Creative Writing studies.
Later, she moved to Montreal. She is currently serving as a member of the International Faculty in the Master of Arts in Creative Writing Program at the University of Hong Kong.
A short story collection, Simple Recipes (2002) won the Ethel Wilson fiction prize and the City of Vancouver Book Award, as well as being a regional finalist for a Commonwealth Prize.
Her debut novel, Certainty, came out in 2005. Thien is interviewed here by Laura Atkins in papertigers.org.