Catherine Lewis 🏳️🌈🩷💜💙
Author of poetry chapbook ZIPLESS (845 Press), finalist for two Bisexual Book Awards. Chinese Canadian. Banff Centre and Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio alum. Tin House ‘25. she/her/hers
Vancouver, Canada
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- So honoured to read with @danielcowper.bsky.social for Delta Literary Arts Society’s Pages and Passages series this past November! Big thanks to @genevievewynand.bsky.social for hosting, and to @angelarebrec.bsky.social and her DLAS team for the wonderful hospitality!
- Such a delight to read at @deathridesaunicorn.bsky.social’s Seventeen-Syllable Slam at @wordvancouver.bsky.social this past September! Always terrific to read alongside such a talented lineup!
- This summer, I was so honoured to read alongside Raoul Fernandes at Richmond Multicultural Community Services’ event The Art of Us: A Multicultural Open Mic!
- I was so honoured to read at @deathridesaunicorn.bsky.social’s Liars of Orpheus show for Pride this past July!✨🏳️🌈❤️🏳️⚧️✨ Thrilled to share the stage with @ashleyfehr.bsky.social, @goldbard.bsky.social, & @spillious.bsky.social, hosted by Lucia Misch! Big thanks to @mcgarragle.bsky.social for the invite!
- During Pride Month this year, I had the honour of designing and facilitating the Creative Writing Workshop: Pride, the Pen and the Page, for members of the LGBTQ+ community, presented by Surrey Muse Writers. Big thanks to the organizing team for inviting me to design/facilitate this event! 🏳️🌈❤️🏳️⚧️
- So honoured to be the featured author at Surrey Muse in May! It was such a delight to read with artist Kim Brake, poet Hari Alluri (virtually), and writer Samantha Krilow, all hosted by Angel-Clare Linton!
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- So thrilled to be reading at the @deathridesaunicorn.bsky.social Seventeen Syllable Slam at @wordvancouver.bsky.social for a third year in a row! ✨🎉✨ See you at 12:30pm tomorrow at UBC Robson Square, Vancouver! ❤️❤️ www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-sevent...
- Happy Pride Month! ✨🏳️🌈❤️🏳️⚧️✨ See you at my writing workshop this Saturday! ❤️❤️❤️
- Thrilled to be presenting a Surrey Muse writing workshop for 2SLGBTQIA+ folks for the second year in a row! ✨❤️🏳️🌈❤️✨ Saturday, June 14, at Surrey City Centre Library! ✨✨✨ surreymusewriters.wordpress.com/2025/05/14/p...
- So honoured to be featured at Vancouver Poetry House’s Vancouver Poetry Slam for the 1st time earlier this spring!! ✨🎉✨ So grateful to share my poetry on the #VanSlam stage, including from my chapbook ZIPLESS & from @pulpliterature.bsky.social! ✨❤️✨
- Big thanks to queer litmag Plenitude Magazine for publishing my poem “Floss”! ✨🏳️🌈🎉 So honoured to be published in Plenitude a second time! ✨✨✨ #queerpoets This poem was written in Elizabeth Bachinsky’s Poetry class ✨🎉✨❤️✨ plenitudemagazine.ca/floss/
- So fabulous to read with poets Rose Henbest and @meghankempgee.bsky.social on May 4th to celebrate Rose’s new chapbook!! ✨🎉✨🍸✨
- Thrilled to be presenting a Surrey Muse writing workshop for 2SLGBTQIA+ folks for the second year in a row! ✨❤️🏳️🌈❤️✨ Saturday, June 14, at Surrey City Centre Library! ✨✨✨ surreymusewriters.wordpress.com/2025/05/14/p...
- So honoured to read at Surrey Muse with such a fabulous lineup on May 24th! ✨❤️✨❤️✨ surreymuse.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/s...
- I’ll be reading with @meghankempgee.bsky.social in North Vancouver this Sunday evening to celebrate Rose Henbest’s new chapbook…See you there, folks! ✨❤️✨❤️✨ fb.me/1Ng2r6y4HGUy...
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- So honoured to attend @tinhouse.bsky.social’s Winter Online Workshop last month! ✨❤️✨ Big thanks to my brilliant workshop leader @chenchenwrites.bsky.social for his generosity & for his craft lecture featuring this @dseuss.bsky.social book! Thanks to my fellow students for holding space ❤️ #thww
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- So cool to see my 845 Press chapbook ZIPLESS on TV news (including The National & CBC Vancouver), as yesterday’s federal election campaigning included a stop at a Toronto bookstore! ✨ Big thanks to Kyle Hawke & @roblucastaylor.bsky.social for spotting my chapbook cover on TV and letting me know! ✨
- So cool to spot my 845 Press chapbook ZIPLESS on TV news! ✨✨✨ Thanks so much to my pressmate Rob for the catch! ✨✨✨
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- So thrilled to be featured at Vancouver Poetry Slam for the 1st time, next Monday, March 24! ✨❤️✨ This event is hybrid, so come to Shamshiri Caveman or join online! The top 4 competitors from that night’s 2-round slam will qualify for Van Slam Finals! www.vancouverpoetryhouse.com/event/vancou...
- So grateful for in-person @tinhouse.bsky.social Winter Online Workshop hangouts in Vancouver, Canada! ✨✨✨ Yesterday I finally met the one fellow Vancouverite in my recent Tin House workshop… turns out Prachi Kamble & I graduated from Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio a year apart! #thww
- Beyond thrilled to be hosting the launch event for my friend @leataranto.bsky.social’s debut YA novel A DROP IN THE OCEAN on May 21st, with guest reader @yilinwriter.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉 See you all at Iron Dog Books, folks! ✨❤️✨
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- First earthquake I’ve felt in a long time!! #Vancouver
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- So honoured to read at my @tinhouse.bsky.social Winter Online Workshop today! 🎉🎉🎉 Big thanks to my fellow workshop students for the wonderfully warm reception for my funny & sexy queer poem, and for your amazing readings! ✨🏳️🌈❤️ It’s such a delight to be in community with you all! ❤️❤️❤️ #thww
- So glad to restock Chinatown bookstore @massybooks.bsky.social with more copies of my chapbook ZIPLESS! Always a delight to see owner Patricia Massy herself! ✨❤️✨ I still remember posting about my chapbook being published and Massy Books reaching out to ask about stocking it! ❤️❤️❤️
- So honoured to be Featured Poet for the 1st time, at the annual @gunghaggis.bsky.social Banquet celebrating Chinese New Year & Robbie Burns Day! ✨🧧❤️🏴✨ I read a poem by Robert Burns & my Chinese New Year poem “Golden” from @pulpliterature.bsky.social, and ate haggis wonton & haggis lettuce wrap! 🎉🎉🎉
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- So honoured to read at a Robbie Burns Day celebration for the 1st time, between bagpipe segments! ✨🏴✨ I read the poem “My Heart’s in the Highlands” during my 1st visit to the Robert Burns Memorial statue, wearing the Harris Tweed hat I got while hubby & I visited Scotland to explore his heritage!
- So glad to restock the always-delightful East Vancouver queer bookstore Cross and Crows with more copies of my chapbook ZIPLESS and to get some shopping done recently… I gawked at their beautiful rainbow merch and finally nabbed a copy of Melissa Febos’ Girlhood! ✨🏳️🌈❤️🏳️⚧️✨
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- I was so incredibly honoured to serve as Featured Poet at the 2025 Gung Haggis Fat Choy banquet on Sunday! ✨🧧🏴⛩️ Such a special fusion celebration of Chinese New Year & Robbie Burns Day that happened to honour both my Chinese heritage & my husband’s Scottish heritage ✨❤️✨
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- I’m so honoured to serve as the Featured Poet at this year’s Gung Haggis Fat Choy banquet! 🎉🧧⛩️🏴 See you soon, Vancouver! ✨✨✨
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- Huge thanks to the League of Canadian Poets for publishing my poem “I Will Never Know” in today’s Poetry Pause! This poem was an Honourable Mention for the League’s 2024 Summer Lovin’ Contests! Written in solidarity with all women, cis and trans… you are all my sisters ❤️❤️❤️ poets.ca/i-will-never...
- Beyond thrilled to be attending the 2025 @tinhouse.bsky.social Winter Online Workshop this February with faculty member @chenchenwrites.bsky.social! ✨🎉✨🏳️🌈✨ My first Tin House workshop! 🎉🎉🎉
- So delighted that my poem “I Will Never Know” was selected as an Honourable Mention in the League of Canadian Poets’ 2024 Summer Lovin’ Contests and is forthcoming in Poetry Pause! ✨✨✨ Congrats to the winners and to the other honourable mentions! ✨✨✨ poets.ca/summerlovin2...
- This Halloween, it was so fabulous to be a featured poet at @deathridesaunicorn.bsky.social’s Famous Last Words for the 1st time, as part of the Heart of the City Festival! ❤️❤️❤️ So honoured to read with @kevinspenst.bsky.social, RC Weslowski, & Dina Del Bucchia, hosted by Sara Bynoe! ✨✨✨
- This fall, I was so delighted to take part in the @deathridesaunicorn.bsky.social Seventeen-Syllable Slam at Word Vancouver for the 2nd year in a row… my 3rd consecutive year in this festival! Congrats to Leslie Stark on being crowned the winner 👑 & thanks to @mcgarragle.bsky.social for the invite!
- This fall, I was so delighted to host Ellen Chang-Richardson’s Vancouver launch for their full-length debut BLOOD BELIES at Massy Arts Society! 🎉🎉🎉 At this event, we also celebrated Patrick Grace’s full-length debut DEVIANT, and heard some fabulous work from @davidlywrites.bsky.social! ✨✨✨
- So thrilled to read at @deathridesaunicorn.bsky.social’s Liars of Orpheus series for the 1st time this summer… it was such an honour to read with Franz Seachel, Jillian Christmas, & RC Weslowski, hosted by SJ Valiquette at The Pleasant! ✨✨✨ Squeezing truths into a pack of lies was sooo difficult! 🤣
- To kick off Pride Month 2024, I was so honoured to read at Pride and Plenitude, presented by queer litmag Plenitude Magazine at the Vancouver Public Library! Loved reading with Plenitude's Managing Editor Patrick Grace & Founding Editor Andrea Routley, along with fellow Plenitude contributors! ✨🏳️🌈❤️🏳️⚧️✨
- This summer, I was so honoured to curate & host a Vancouver Poetry House edition of Royal City Literary Arts Society’s Poetry in the Park featuring Franz Seachel and Sonya Littlejohn, who routinely bring their talents to classrooms via VPH's WordPlay program! Thanks to Janet Kvammen for the invite ❤️
- So honoured to serve as TriCities Poetry’s first-ever feature poet, at this summer’s PRIDE POURS poetry night at Brave Brewing Company! 🏳️🌈 Big thanks to Aaron Hunter for the invitation - you’ve done such fabulous work with this fun open mic series! ✨✨✨
- For Pride Month 2024, I had the honour of designing/facilitating my 1st Creative Writing Workshop: Pride, the Pen and the Page, for LGBTQ+ folks, presented by Surrey Muse Writers. Big thanks to the wonderful organizing team for the invite! Thanks so much to the folks who braved the rain to attend! 🏳️🌈
- On Mother’s Day 2024, I was so delighted to read with Kawika Guillermo & @candietanaka.bsky.social & moderator @isabellawangbc.bsky.social on the panel Queer Asian Authors on Writing Chosen & Given Family, at the inaugural Bridges Literary Festival, presented by New Westminster Public Library! 🏳️🌈❤️
