Judy Fong Bates

Judy Fong Bates came to Canada from China as a young child and grew up in several small Ontario towns. She taught elementary school in the city of Toronto for over twenty years. While teaching, she honed her skills as a storyteller and has told folktales and original stories at schools and festivals throughout southern Ontario. Judy has also taught and mentored students in creative writing through the University of Toronto, Trent University, and Diaspora Dialogues. Her stories have been...See more

Judy Fong Bates came to Canada from China as a young child and grew up in several small Ontario towns. She taught elementary school in the city of Toronto for over twenty years. While teaching, she honed her skills as a storyteller and has told folktales and original stories at schools and festivals throughout southern Ontario. Judy has also taught and mentored students in creative writing through the University of Toronto, Trent University, and Diaspora Dialogues. Her stories have been broadcast on CBC radio and published in literary journals and anthologies, and she has written for The Globe and Mail and The Washington Post . She is the author of Midnight at the Dragon Caf�, the 2011 One Book Community Read for the city of Toronto, the Everybody Reads selection for Portland, Oregon, and an American Library Association Notable Book for 2006; the critically acclaimed short-story collection China Dog and Other Stories ; and her family memoir, The Year of Finding Memory . She lives in on a farm outside Toronto. See less