Kevin Chong

Individual


Roles

Author, Educator, Writer

Biography

Kevin Chong is the author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction, including the novel The Double Life of Benson Yu. Those titles have been named books of the year by Globe and Mail, National Post, and Amazon.ca, listed for a CBC prize, a BC Book Prize, and a National Magazine Award, optioned for film and TV, and published in the US, Europe, and Australia. His creative nonfiction and journalism have recently appeared in the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, the Rumpus, and the South China Morning Post.

University of British Columbia, 2024