Born and raised in China, Tong Ge came to Canada in the late 80s as an international student.
Since 2012, she has published poems, prose, and short stories in English and Chinese across North America, England, and Taiwan.
She has already received four literary prizes and is a finalist for four others. Her debut novel, The House Filler, was published in Canada in 2023 and is one of five worldwide finalists for the 2023 Eyelands Book Awards in the Historical Fiction + Memoir category. It is also the winner of the 2024 Independent Press Award for New Fiction and a finalist for the 2024 Canadian Book Club Awards.
Her book is available on Amazon, Indigo, at some independent bookstores in Canada, and in select libraries in the US and Canada.
Website: www.tong-ge.com
Amazon: https://amzn.to/3ZXxcMD
When Tong isn’t writing, you can find her reading, participating in live theatre, traveling, exercising, ballroom dancing, and always learning new things!
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Sharing faith, nature, and love of animals, and as a veteran living with PTSD, Kim is passionate about spreading and sharing nuggets of Hope through all of her endeavors.
Kim uses her experience of 25+ years in the corporate world as a part of the foundation for building her dream; of writing, podcasting, hosting a radio show and sharing her story and others. Building platforms that help others to share their story and to spread Hope. The About Face Radio show, Let Fear Bounce, Tossing Nuggets of Hope, is the newest to her platforms.
She hosts the podcast Let Fear Bounce and a radio show with the same name. In addition, she hosts the TV Show, The Write Stuff, The Author's Voice with the Believe In Your Dreams TV Network. She is also a co-host of a weekly radio show, Voices4Vets, in her local area.
You can regularly find Kim walking with her rescue dog, Dexter, reading, drinking coffee, and jotting down story ideas about her Realm. In addition to writing and being the Queen of her Realm, she is a 25+ year advocate for veterans providing support through monthly care packages for over 22 years.
