Chapbook Launch- when a country teaches you
About this Event
Featuring Jessica Lee Mcmillan, Lauren Peat, Robin Susanto as guest readers and Christina Shah as host.
Location is at DALINA Main St., 687 Main St., Vancouver. Light refreshments are provided and coffee/drinks available to order. Venue is wheelchair-accessible.
Registration is free, open to all, and required for entrance.
Jaeyun Yoo (she/her) is a Korean-Canadian poet and psychiatrist who is a member of Harbour Centre 5, a local poetry collective. Her poems have appeared in many literary magazines such as PRISM International, The New Quarterly and ROOM. She won The Fiddlehead’s 2023 Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize. Her work was selected for the Best Canadian Poetry Anthology series in 2025 and 2026. "when a country teaches you" is her debut solo chapbook (Baseline Press).
Jessica Lee McMillan (she/her) is a poet and steadfast civil servant. Her recent/forthcoming poems can be read in Contemporary Verse 2, The Malahat Review, ROOM, Crab Creek Review, QWERTY, Canto, New Poetry, and Canadian Literature. Her chapbook a shine like a dime in the dirt under the moon was published by Pinhole Poetry in Spring 2026. Jessica lives on the land of the Halkomelem-speaking Peoples (New Westminster, BC) with her little family and large dog. jessicaleemcmillan.com
Lauren Peat is a writer and translator whose work explores the slipperiness of language, identity, and desire. Her debut poetry chapbook, Future Tense, was published by Baseline Press in 2024. Since then, her writing has been shortlisted for Arc Poetry Magazine's Poem of the Year Award, featured on local city buses, and performed by acclaimed vocal ensembles across the country. She lives in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nation.
Robin Susanto- Bio TBD
Christina Shah lives in New Westminster and works in heavy industry on the waterfront. Her work was shortlisted for 2021’s Ralph Gustafson Prize and selected for Best Canadian Poetry 2023. rig veda was her first videopoem and chapbook (Anstruther, 2023). if: prey, then: huntress (Nightwood, 2025) is her first full-length collection. @christinashah.bsky.social
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