Carianne Leung
WRITER/MENTEE
Carrianne Leung is an educator and fiction writer from Toronto. Her debut novel The Wondrous Woo was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award. The Wondrous Woo follows Miramar Woo, who must help her family stay together after her father’s untimely death.
Her latest book is That Time I Loved You. Inspired by her childhood in Scarborough, an east-end Toronto suburb, the book features a series of interconnected stories that peel back the polished veneer of suburban life to reveal the tragedy and dysfunction lurking under the surface. That Time I Loved You is on the Canada Reads 2019 longlist.
Carianne is a DD 2010 shortorm alum and worked with Robin Maharaj