Jenny Heijun Wills
Jenny Heijun Wills is a Canadian writer, whose memoir Older Sister, Not Necessarily Related won the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction in 2019.[1]
Born in South Korea, she was adopted by a Canadian family in infancy and was raised in Southern Ontario.[2] The memoir is about her experience meeting her birth family for the first time as an adult.[3]
She is a professor of English at the University of Winnipeg.[2]
References[]
- ^ Deborah Dundas, "Andre Alexis, Jenny Heijun Wills are big winners at Writers’ Trust Awards". Toronto Star, November 5, 2019.
- ^ a b Nyala Ali, "Adoption experience frays fraught family bonds". Winnipeg Free Press, October 26, 2019.
- ^ Jane van Koeverden, "Why Jenny Heijun Wills wrote a book about reuniting with her first family in Korea". CBC Books, October 18, 2019.
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