Much thanks to the Canada Council for the Arts, for financially supporting this project.
A big thank-you to the team at Cormorant Books — Marc Côté, Sarah Cooper, Barry Jowett, Luckshika Rajaratnam, Marijke Friesen, Sarah Jensen, Fei Dong, Basil Sylvester, Diyasha Sen — for their warmth, openness, and enthusiasm.
Gratitude to Daniel Gawthrop for connecting us with Cormorant.
Thank you to Leonora C. Angeles, Darlyne Bautista, Ida Beltran, Robert Diaz, and Eleanor Guerrero-Campbell for voicing their steadfast support for this project at a crucial time.
And finally, a shout-out to the late Jim Wong-Chu — legendary author, activist, and co-founder of Asian Canadian Writers Workshop — for helping plant the seeds for this anthology before his passing. While we wish Jim were still with us to see this book come to fruition, his nurturing spirit lives on in its every page.