Sandra Yuen MacKay

Sandra Yuen MacKay has a Fine Arts Diploma from Langara College and a bachelor’s degree in art history from the University of British Columbia. Her stories, articles and poetry are published in Front Magazine, The Bulletin (a mental health magazine), The Prairie Journal and other publications.

In My Schizophrenic Life: The Road to Recovery from Mental Illness, her memoir, she describes her struggle with schizoaffective disorder. Chop Shtick and From New York to Vancouver: Stories on the Fly are fictional works.

Under the pen name Sandra Yuen, she wrote a prose poetry book, I Want to be Buried Standing Up

Sandra is a visual artist, musician, and speaker on mental illness, residing in Vancouver, British Columbia.

She is the recipient of the Coast Mental Health Courage to Come Back Award. She was chosen for the Faces of Mental Illness campaign held by the Canadian Alliance of Mental Illness and Mental Health (CAMIMH). She received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.