Jenny Heijun Wills

Title: Professor

Biography:

Jenny Heijun Wills is the author of Everything and Nothing At All: Essays (Knopf, Penguin Random House Canada, 2024), which was finalist for the Writers’ Trust Weston Prize for nonfiction and was named a best book by the Globe & Mail and CBC Books. It was reviewed and/or featured in The Globe & Mail, The Toronto Star, the CBC, The Winnipeg Free Press, Calgary Herald, Book Ends with Mattea Roach, Quill & Quire, The Social, Global TV, and others.

She is also the author of Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related (McClelland & Stewart, Penguin Random House Canada, 2019), which won the Weston Writers’ Trust Prize in 2019 and the Manitoba Book Awards' Best First Book Prize in 2020. It was named as a best book of 2019 by The Globe & Mail, CBC Books, and was deemed one of the 10 best Manitoban-authored books of the last decade by the Winnipeg Free Press. It was reviewed and/or featured, amongst other places, in The New York Review of Books, The LA Times, Elle Canada, Hazlitt, and The Rumpus.

She is a Fulbright Alum (Harvard) and in 2015 was Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. She holds two BA-HONS (Journalism, English), an MA, and a PhD. She was the University of Winnipeg Chancellor’s Research Chair, 2020-2023. Currently, she publishes creative nonfiction (short and long form) as well as short form fiction.

Teaching Areas:

Creative Writing, Critical Race literary and cultural Studies, and Asian/North American literary and cultural studies

Courses:
U2024W     ENGL-2102-004     Intro Creative Writing

Publications:

Books

Everything and Nothing At All: Essays. Knopf, Penguin Random House Canada, 2024.

Teaching Asian North American Texts. (co-edited collection) Modern Languages Association Press, 2022.

Adoption and Multiculturalism. (co-edited collection) University of Michigan Press, 2020.

Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. McClelland & Stewart, Penguin Random House Canada, 2019.