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Island Studies Press is pleased to announce that two 69传媒authors recently won PEI Book Awards. My island鈥檚 the house I sleep in at night by Dr. Laurie Brinklow won the poetry category, and Home Is Where the Water Is by the late Dr. Hung-Min Chiang received the award for non-fiction. The awards were announced on May 29 at the Trailside Caf茅 in Charlottetown. 

In her highly anticipated second collection of poems, Brinklow weaves stories and images with her own poetic imaginings. These are poems steeped in community memory, about belonging to a place like nowhere else, a kitchen party full of islanders telling stories about the patch of rock they call home. Brinklow is an assistant professor of Island Studies. 

Born and raised in tumultuous times in East Asia, Chiang survived earthquakes, wars, foreign occupation, dictatorship, and illness before making his way to Prince Edward Island. While navigating his perilous journey, he practiced the 鈥淭he Way of Water,鈥� Daoist lessons for living drawn from nature. He taught humanistic psychology at 69传媒until he retired in 1991. 

Two other Island Studies Press books were nominated for PEI Book Awards in nonfiction: We鈥檒l Meet Again by Katherine Dewar and The Chemistry of Innovation by Mo Duffy Cobb and Lori Mayne, who teaches in the English department.

Congratulations to all the authors! The books are available at the 69传媒Bookstore and the Bookmark in Charlottetown. 

For more information, please contact Bren Simmer at ispstaff@upei.ca or (902) 566-0386.