Elaine Woo

Put Your Hand in Mine: "Witty and compassionate, Woo's pungent observations transport the reader to marvelous inner landscapes, part comic strip, part odyssey, part dream, part video game. Here, awkward humans morph into quirky birds, winter ennui appears as vampire. The bluffs and storm-seas of the human psyche writhe in rugged corduroys...a delightful, fascinating read."

--Meredith Quartermain

"Woo is a perceptive poet whose attention is turned to the threshold when the 'inner becomes the social.'

--Shazia Hafiz Ramji

Cycling with the Dragon: "Woo's graceful poetics balance rhythmic lyricism with fragmentation, familial tensions, with racial vulnerabilities, and bodily meditations with environmental reflections. Above all else, ..an honest and perceptive collection that burns with conscience."

--Jordan Abel

Elaine Woo's poetry, artwork, and non-fiction is found in Otoliths, h&, S/tick, Event Magazine, Prism International, The Elephants, The Maynard, Grain Magazine, Experiment-O, Arc Poetry, carte blanche, The Literary Commune, Asian Cha, and many more international literary magazines. More at www.elainespath.org.

Anthology Contributions:

* Sustenance: Writers from BC and Beyond on the Subject of Food

* Veils, Halos & Shackles: International Poetry on the Oppression & Empowerment of Women

* Shy: An Anthology, winner Independent Publishers Award, anthology category, 2014

* V6A: Writing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, finalist, City of Vancouver's Book Award, 2012

* The Enpipe Line

Her art song collaboration, "Night-time Symphony," with Daniel Marshall won a Boston Metro Opera festival prize, 2013. She makes her home in Cascadia.