Jia Qing Wilson-Yang is a Canadian writer and musician. Her debut novel Small Beauty was published in 2016."‘Small Beauty’ by Jia Qing Wilson-Yang" . The Winnipeg Review, July 18, 2016.
She was awarded an honour of distinction from the Dayne Ogilvie Prize in 2016,"Horlick wins writing prize". Ottawa Citizen, June 8, 2016. and won the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction at the 29th Lambda Literary Awards in 2017."29th Annual Lambda Literary Award winners announced" . LGBT Weekly, June 13, 2017. Her writing has also appeared in the anthologies Bound to Struggle: Where Kink and Radical Politics Meet and Letters Lived: Radical Reflections, Revolutionary Paths, and in the literary magazine Room."“To Reflect and Refract the World Around Us”: An Interview with Jia Qing Wilson-Yang" . Plenitude, April 6, 2016.
Wilson-Yang was a member of the Guelph-based Burnt Oak collective and record label. She co-founded the group in 2005 with Ryan Newell and Brad MacInerny. In 2007 she released May All Yr Children Be Dragons which featured songs written while living in Beijing learning Mandarin. The same year Wilson-Yang released the split EP Hands and Feats with Burnt Oak member Richard Laviolette. They supported the release with a seven-week tour of the United States and Canada.
Discography may all yr children be dragons (2007) Hands and Feats (with Richard Laviolette) (2007) changes of state (2008) Eleven Songs (2009) eight steps in the recent moves of (2013)
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