Lindsay Wong

Lindsay Wong is a Canadian writer, whose memoir The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family was published in 2018.^[1] The book, a humorous memoir about her Chinese Canadian family's history of mental illness,^[2] won the 2019 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize^[3] and was a shortlisted finalist for the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.^[4]

Lindsay Wong
Lindsay Wong in 2022
Occupation	Writer
Language	English
Citizenship	Canadian
Years active	2018–present
Notable works	The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family
Notable awards	Hubert Evans Non-Fiction 2019
Website
lindsaywongwriter.com

Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia,^[5] Wong wrote the book while pursuing graduate studies at Columbia University in New York City.^[1][6]

The Woo-Woo was selected for the 2019 edition of Canada Reads, where it was defended by Joe Zee,^[7] and was longlisted for the 2019 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.^[8]

Wong's book Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality: Stories came out in 2023.^{[9][dead link]}