Join us for an intimate chat with award winning author, Eden Robinson. Moderated by Historic Joy Kogawa House interim executive director, Johnny D Trinh, this discussion will explore Robinson’s craft and process through a reflection of her body of work. Eden will also share selected excerpts from her works, and insights on future possibilities
Location: Sunroom - Gallery
Type: Reading, In Conversation
Sponsored by Word Vancouver · The Historic Joy Kogawa House
Moderator: Johnny D Trinh
Reader: Eden Robinson, Son of a Trickster, Monkey Beach (Penguin Random House)
About The Moderator
Johnny D Trinh is the Artistic Director of Vancouver Poetry House; Interim Executive Director of Historic Joy Kogawa House; and Founder of Stage to Page Performance Society. Johnny is an interdisciplinary community-engaged artists with practices in poetry, theatre, film, and culinary art. Trinh's recent work, Quiet Kitchen funded by the Canada Council is a performance and collection of poems, recipes, and stories that recognizes how many people find culture and identity through food and family. It asks the question, "What happens when that connections are lost?" Their play, "Pho-Miglia" a queer intercultural rom-com is set for workshop in Spring 2025. Additional highlights: a 2024 Writer-in-residence at the Historic Joy Kogawa House, Artist-in-residence at the Moberly Arts & Cultural Centre, Banff Spoken Word Residency Alumnus. Johnny holds a MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies focusing on Community-Engaged Art and Autoethnography. “It takes a community to build an artist ... whether we are nurtured by it, or resist against it.” johnnydavidtrinh.com
About The Reader
Eden Robinson
Haisla/Heiltsuk author Eden Robinson’s collection of short stories, Traplines, won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1998. Monkey Beach, her first novel, was shortlisted for both The Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction in 2000 and won the BC Book Prize’s Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her novel Son of a Trickster was shortlisted for The Giller Prize. Trickster Drift, its sequel, won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. The final book in the Trickster series, Return of the Trickster, was published 2021.
