BOOKS
Lin’s Lucky Red Envelope
Holt Renfrew commission, 2022 | Children’s Book
Art by Elaine Chen
For Holt Renfrew’s 2022 Lunar New Year campaign, Sennah Yee wrote a story about a young girl’s first time celebrating Lunar New Year in Canada. All proceeds of Lin’s Lucky Red Envelope will go to Project 1907.
My Day With Gong Gong
Annick Press, 2020 | Children’s Book
Art by Elaine Chen
In Sennah Yee’s debut children’s book My Day With Gong Gong, a day in Chinatown takes an unexpected turn when a bored little girl makes a connection with her grandpa.
Joint Winner, Kirkus Best Picture Books of 2020 That Celebrate Family
Blue Spruce Award Nominee, Ontario Library Association, 2020
Joint Winner, CBC Best Canadian Picture Books of 2020
Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection, 2020
Canadian Children’s Book Centre Best Books for Kids & Teens, 2021 Spring List
“It is beautiful because it has nothing to do with you.”
Metatron Press, 2017 | Poetry/Prose
Cover by Christine Shan Shan Hou
Through a series of short vignettes, Sennah Yee’s debut full-length book How Do I Look? paints a colourful portrait of a woman both raised and repelled by the media.
Shortlisted for Metatron Prize for Rising Authors, 2016
Excerpts:
Bond “Girls,” Montreal Review of Books, 2018
3 poems: The Fast and The Furious, Rear Window, Flower Crown Snapchat Filter, Peach Mag, 2017
4 poems: The Beach, The Desert, The Top of the Mountain, Dial-Up Internet Sounds, The Puritan, 2017
3 poems: Mulan, Intimates, Motherlode, Cosmonauts Avenue, 2016
10 poems, Poor Claudia, 2016 – featured in Wigleaf Top 50 of 2016
book trailer by Victoria Long
Syllabus - ENG287 The Digital Text
Prof. Adam Hammond, University of Toronto, 2019
Syllabus - WGS396F Writing the Body
Dr. Sheila Stewart, University of Toronto, 2017, 2018