Jen Sookfong Lee

Jen Sookfong Lee is a Chinese Canadian broadcaster and novelist. A radio personality for CBC Radio One in Vancouver, British Columbia, she contributes a regular literary segment called "Westcoast Words" to On the Coast and All Points West, the network's local programs in Vancouver and Victoria, and is also a regular contributor to the national network program The Next Chapter. In the CBC's national Canada Reads competition in 2009, she defended Brian Francis's novel Fruit.