Teresa Wong is a Chinese-Canadian cartoonist. Wong is a second-generation Canadian.[1]
Career
Wong is the author of the graphic memoir Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression.[2]Dear Scarlet illustrates Wong's experience with
postpartum depression after the birth of her first child.[3] A review in The New York Times describes Wong's graphic memoir as a "fresh voice" in cartooning.[4] Several reviews have noted the drawings help mothers cope with postpartum mental health.[5][6][7]
Her comics have appeared in The Believer, The New Yorker, and
McSweeney's,[8] among other outlets.[9] Some of Wong's comics and writing addresses the tension between motherhood and creating art.[10]
Wong also teaches classes in memoir and comics at Gotham Writers[11] and was the 2021-2022 writer in residence at the University of Calgary.[3][12] Her comics process and creative practice are described in an article published in 2023 by Krishnan and Jha.[13]
Recognition
Dear Scarlet was a finalist for the Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize[14][15] and made the CBC Reads 2020 Longlist.[16]
Work
Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression, 2019, published by
Arsenal Pulp Press
This is Not a Feel-Good Movie, 2020, published in
The Believer[17]
Teresa Wong is a Chinese-Canadian cartoonist. Wong is a second-generation Canadian.[1]
Career
Wong is the author of the graphic memoir Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression.[2]Dear Scarlet illustrates Wong's experience with
postpartum depression after the birth of her first child.[3] A review in The New York Times describes Wong's graphic memoir as a "fresh voice" in cartooning.[4] Several reviews have noted the drawings help mothers cope with postpartum mental health.[5][6][7]
Her comics have appeared in The Believer, The New Yorker, and
McSweeney's,[8] among other outlets.[9] Some of Wong's comics and writing addresses the tension between motherhood and creating art.[10]
Wong also teaches classes in memoir and comics at Gotham Writers[11] and was the 2021-2022 writer in residence at the University of Calgary.[3][12] Her comics process and creative practice are described in an article published in 2023 by Krishnan and Jha.[13]
Recognition
Dear Scarlet was a finalist for the Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize[14][15] and made the CBC Reads 2020 Longlist.[16]
Work
Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression, 2019, published by
Arsenal Pulp Press
This is Not a Feel-Good Movie, 2020, published in
The Believer[17]