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-Sky Lee was born in Port Alberni, British Columbia. She is a Canadian artist and novelist and has published both feminist fiction and non-fiction. She is the author of Bellydancer and Disappearing Moon Cafe, a 1990 finalist for the Governor General's Award and winner of the Vancouver Book Prize. She is co-editor of Telling It: Women and Language Across Cultures and illustrator of Paul Yee's children's book, Teach Me How To Fly, Skyfighter.
+==Personal life==
+Moving to [[Vancouver]] in 1967 to attend university, she received a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in Fine Arts at the [[University of British Columbia]] and a Diploma in Nursing from [[Douglas College]]. She became a member of the Asian Canadian Writers Workshop. Lee lives on [[Saltspring Island]], [[British Columbia]].
+==Career==
+Lee was first published as the illustrator of 1983's children's book, ''Teach Me to Fly, Skyfighter!'' by [[Paul Yee]].  The book is a collection of four stories exploring what it is like to grow up as a [[Chinese people|Chinese]]-[[Canadian people|Canadian]] in a community with links to both Asian-Canadian and Anglo-Canadian cultures.  Reviewer Robert W. Bruinsma argued the book was "modestly illustrated."
+Lee's first book, ''Disappearing Moon Cafe'', published in 1990, explores the Wong family over four generations, as they operate the titled cafe.  Nominated for the [[Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize]] and the [[Governor General's Award]], the novel won the [[City of Vancouver Book Award]] despite some critics charging that the writing was over-earnest.  For example, critic Gary Draper wrote, "Hardly a noun walks free of a trail of adjectives."
+In the same year, Lee contributed to the collective prose, ''Telling It: Women and Language Across Culture.''  The book's writing is attributed to the "Telling It Book Collective", of which Lee was a member.  The book explores issues of [[racism]] and [[homophobia]] experienced by [[Indigenous peoples|native]], [[lesbian]] and [[Asian Canadian]] women.
+In 1994, Lee published ''Bellydancer: Stories'', a collection of 15 short stories that explore a range of [[feminist]] themes, with [[allegory|allegories]] focusing primarily on the "bellydancer," an [[archetype]] of survival.  The back cover of the book explains: "bellydancing was originally performed at the bedside of women in [[childbirth|labor]], as an erotic dance of creation."
+Her short stories have also appeared in ''Vancouver Short Stories'' as well as periodicals such as ''West Coast Line'', ''[http://www.Torontopedia.ca/The_Asianadian The Asianadian]'', ''Kinethis'', and ''[[Makara (magazine)|Makara]]''.
+==Bibliography==
+*''[[Teach Me to Fly, Skyfighter!: And Other Stories]]'' (as illustrator, text by [[Paul Yee]]) - 1983
+*''[[Disappearing Moon Cafe]]'' - 1990
+*''[[Telling It: Women and Language Across Cultures]]'' - 1990 (with [[Betsy Warland]], [[Lee Maracle]] and [[Daphne Marlatt]]) [[Press Gang Publishers]]
+*''[[Bellydancer: Stories]]'' - 1994