Meiling Jin

A poet, children's writer, and short-story writer , MJ is known for her her trenchant autobiographical approaches to social issues. As well as writing poetry and short stories, she is also a radio broadcaster and a film maker. She has written and produced a play and has worked on a serial for radio soap opera.
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Milestones

1956

MJ was born in Guyana (which was then a colony named British Guiana) to Chinese parents. She was one of several children. (She mentions a sister and brother in Gifts from My Grandmother).
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.

November 1996

MJ published a collection of short stories entitled Song of the Boatwoman; her mother had collaborated on some of them.
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Jin, Meiling. Song of the Boatwoman. Peepal Tree.
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Biography

Birth

1956

MJ was born in Guyana (which was then a colony named British Guiana) to Chinese parents. She was one of several children. (She mentions a sister and brother in Gifts from My Grandmother).
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.