Catherine Lewis 🏳️‍🌈🩷💜💙

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Author of poetry chapbook ZIPLESS (845 Press), finalist for two Bisexual Book Awards. Chinese Canadian. Banff Centre and Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio alum. Tin House ‘25. she/her/hers Vancouver, Canada linktr.ee/cat_writes_604

Daniel Cowper and Catherine Lewis seated by Delta Literary Arts Society banner
Catherine Lewis up at the mic
Raoul Fernandes and Catherine Lewis standing next to a Richmond Multicultural Community Services banner
Event readers and organizing team: Catherine Lewis, Goldbard, Spillious, Ashley Fehr, and Sean McGarragle in front row; Lucia Misch and Andrew Sutherland in back row
Catherine Lewis standing by Surrey Muse banner while wearing Pride socks and a black flowered dress
Samantha Krilow, Angel-Clare Linton, Catherine Lewis, and Kim Brake standing by a Surrey Muse banner
Event Poster for Seventeen Syllable Slam at Word Vancouver on Saturday Sept 20, 2025 at 12:30pm
Catherine Lewis up at the mic in a red and black dress.
Screenshot of Catherine Lewis’s poem “Floss”
Event poster for Pride, the Pen & The Page - Writing Workshop for members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community
Class photo of Chen Chen’s workshop group at the 2025 Tin House Winter Online Workshop
On CBC Vancouver News, New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh is seated in front of bookshelves. ZIPLESS is displayed on a shelf behind Singh’s left shoulder.
Event poster for March 24 Van Slam, featuring Catherine Lewis: Shamshiri Caveman (139 Keefer) & Online Doors at 7pm | Sign up at 7:30pm | Show at 8pm $8 advance tickets | $10 to 15 sliding scale at door (No one turned away for lack of funds)
Selfie of Catherine Lewis with Prachi Kamble at a café table
Catherine Lewis on screen on Zoom
Holding up three copies of my chapbook ZIPLESS outside Massy Books
Catherine Lewis reading on stage from Pulp Literature’s Issue 37
Catherine Lewis reading at the base of Robert Burns Memorial Statue in Stanley Park
Catherine Lewis in a tartan dress standing next to in-store display of her chapbook ZIPLESS
Poem “I Will Never Know” in Poetry Pause
Acceptance note for 2025 Tin House Winter Online Workshop
Honourable Mentions listing
Group photo of Andrew Sutherland, Sean McGarragle, Dina Del Bucchia, Catherine Lewis, Kevin Spenst, Sara Bynoe, Meris Goodfellow, and RC Weslowski, in our Halloween costumes
Group shot of Erin Kirsh, Catherine Lewis, Sonya Littlejohn, RC Weslowski, Leslie Stark, Duncan Shields, Sean McGarragle, Jenny Gatchalian, Trevana Spilchen, Warren Dean Fulton, Kayla Price, Kyle Hawke, Amanda Eagleson, David Geary, Vitamin F
Ellen Chang-Richardson up at the mic, reading from their book BLOOD BELIES
Catherine Lewis up at the mic
Patrick Grace, Catherine Lewis, Andrea Routley, Shaelin Bishop, David Ly, and Meghan Kemp-Gee standing on stage
Sonya Littlejohn, Franz Seachel, Janet Kvammen, and Catherine Lewis posed around banners reading “Verses Festival of Words” and “Poetry in the Park”
Catherine Lewis up at the mic, reading from her chapbook ZIPLESS
Catherine Lewis standing next to a banner with the text “Surrey Muse: An Interdisciplinary Art & Literature Presentation Group”
Catherine Lewis, Candie Tanaka, Isabella Wang, and Kawika Guillermo standing in front of a wood-toned wall
Ziyian Kwan, curator Johnny Trinh, Joy Kogawa, Ange Yeung, Herbert Fong, Hari Alluri, Catherine Lewis, and Renite Manisha Gosal seated
Catherine Lewis, Isabella Wang, Alan Hill, and Janet Kvammen by Poetic Justice event signage
Lea Taranto, Catherine Lewis, Yilin Wang, and Neil Aitken standing on stage
Three of Annick MacAskill’s poetry collections (No Meeting Without Body, Murmurations, and Shadow Blight) spread out on the floor
“How I Earned My Queer Card” (page 1) by Catherine Lewis
Selfie of Catherine Lewis with Shane Koyczan and his book Stickboy.
Out of My League by Catherine Lewis You're so beautiful, my brilliant date says, looking up at me, their eyes half-closed, with me astride their lap, their smile effervescent as my hands roam through their hair, as my fingertips slither down to their waist. And with my knees planted by their hips, on their brand-new white chesterfield, I can't stop kissing them back. I can read in their eyes that it's been a long time since they've been happy like this. Ughh, you're soooo cute, I sputter out between kisses, my fingers running through their sleek butch haircut once again. My eyes are limpid, giving away how enamoured I am of this date who's so much more accomplished than me
RCLAS’s collage of photos from 2023-08-16 New West Pride edition of Poetry in the Park
Six LGBTQ Asians standing with Joy Kogawa’s standup in Kogawa House
Text “CBC Poetry Prize Longlist: Brideprice by Catherine Lewis” with author photo of Catherine Lewis (a middle-aged Chinese Canadian woman with wavy black hair, wearing a sleeveless black dress)
Pulp Literature Issue 40, Autumn 2023 cover, depicting two astronauts
Selfie of Catherine Lewis walking in the Vancouver Dyke March, holding up a Bisexual Pride fan, in a black face mask.
Pumpkin Spice Latte drink with whipped cream in a Starbucks cup on a weathered wooden table
Middle-aged Asian woman wearing a black V-neck top and a silicone face mask adorned with fabric depicting Hello Kitty holding a love letter. Black backdrop is by Vancouver Queer Film Festival.
Screencap of New West Record article with headline “Poetry in the Park showcases award-winning poets for Pride Week”
Middle-aged Chinese Canadian woman wearing a white face mask and false lashes, and carrying White Claw
Catherine Lewis, in a red-and-black plaid dress, at a lectern, holding up her chapbook ZIPLESS