born 1994, Vancouver, bc, Canada | writer
Sheung-King, Aaron Tang’s debut novel, You are Eating an Orange. You are Naked (Book*hug Press, 2020), is a finalist for the 2021 Governor General's Award, a finalist for the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award, longlisted for CBC’s Canada Reads 2021, named one of the best book debuts of 2020 by the Globe and Mail, and optioned for film adaption by Fluent Films, Montreal. Sheung-King is also named one of 30 Canadian writers to watch in 2022 by the CBC. His second novel, BATSHIT SEVEN, published by Penguin Random House Canada in 2024 won the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
Born in Vancouver, Sheung-King grew up in Hong Kong. His work examines “the interior lives of the transnational Asian diaspora” (Thea Lim, The Nation). Sheung-King taught creative writing at the University of Guelph and Sheridan College. He now works as a humanities teacher at Avenues: The World School, Shenzhen and splits his time between China and Canada.
Education
Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing, University of Guelph, Toronto, ON, Canada. 2016 - 2018
Graduate Research Scholarship, 2018, The Constance Rooke Scholarship, 2016