A graduate of the UBC's creative writing program, Elaine Woo is a poet/librettist and non-fiction writer whose first book of poetry, Cycling with the Dragon (Nightwood Editions) was published in 2014.

Her second poetry collection, Put Your Hand in Mine (Signature Editions, 2019) was cited in 2021 by CBC Radio’s North by Northwest host, Sheryl MacKay and Western Sky Books co-owner Tamara Gorin, as one of the best three poetry collections in recent years.

Woo's art song collaboration with composer Daniel Marshall won a Boston Metro Opera Festival Prize in 2013. She is a contributor to the anthology, V6A: Writing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside which was a finalist for the City of Vancouver's Book Award in 2012. Her work is also in carte blanche, Shy: An Anthology, Arc Poetry Magazine, The Enpipe Line, Earthwalk, Megaphone Magazine, Ricepaper, West Coast Line, one cool word, Ascent Aspirations, Poetry Pacific, All Rights Reserved Literary Association, Asian Cha, Gusts: Contemporary Tanka, Event Magazine, Prism International, Otoliths, Grain, h&, S/tick, Experiment-O and other magazines.

BOOKS

Cycling with the Dragon (Nightwood, 2014) 9780889713017

Put Your Hand in Mine (Signature Editions, 2019) 9781773240473

[BCBW 2022]