born 1959 Singapore
immigrated to Canada 1980
University of Toronto, B.Sc., psychology
Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, M.A. and Ph.D., clinical psychology
a clinical psychologist in private practice in Vancouver
psychotherapy with adults using a technique called mind/body integration
"One of the themes that runs through practically every individual's struggle is that of enslavement although no one calls it that. There are those oppressive forces external to the person which act to impede his or her behaviour, but there are also choices that people make which lead them to be less free than they could be."
poetry The Colours of Heroines, Women's Press, Toronto, 1994
first novel This Place Called Absence, Turnstone Press, 2000
poetry in the anthology Swallowing Clouds
fiction in the anthology Hot and Bothered
"The Gall of the Girl" in You Be Me: Friendship in the Lives of Teen Girls Annick Press, 2002
Lydia Kwa's This Place Called Absence
excerpt from Lydia Kwa's This Place Called Absence
