Sennah Yee is from Toronto, where she writes poetry, prose, and film criticism.
She is the author of the poetry collection How Do I Look? (Metatron Press), which dissects pop culture through personal anecdotes, and the children’s book My Day With Gong Gong (Annick Press), a love letter to her grandpa and Chinatown. She most recently wrote Lin’s Lucky Red Envelope, a storybook for Holt Renfrew’s 2022 Lunar New Year campaign.
She is the co-founder and managing editor of the pop culture journal In The Mood Magazine. She is also a poetry editor at Peach Mag.
She is the producer of the feature film Withdrawn, released on Netflix, and Retrograde, which will premiere at Slamdance Film Festival in 2022. Her Cinema & Media Studies Masters thesis focused on gendered robot design in popular media.
Though named after a Formula 1 driver, she has yet to get behind the wheel.