About

Who is he?

This is the image William has recently been using for publicity purposes but the dimensions of the image are unusual and it often does not fit into social media posts the way he expects it to fit.

This is the image William has recently been using for publicity purposes but the dimensions of the image are unusual and it often does not fit into social media posts the way he expects it to fit.

Here is the bio provided to literary journals and all others who ask for it:

William Ping is a Chinese-Canadian writer from Newfoundland. After completing his Master of Arts at Memorial University in 2020, he was named a Fellow of the School of Graduate Studies. He received the 2022 Cox & Palmer Creative Writing Award as well as the 2021 Landfall Trust. His debut novel, Hollow Bamboo, which he wrote for his master’s degree, received the Award for Thesis Excellence from the English department. His work has previously been featured on the CBC, in Riddle Fence, and in the anthologies Us, Now and Hard Ticket.