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Anna Yin<\/h5>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=””]Anna Yin was Mississauga\u2019s inaugural Poet Laureate (2015\u20132017) and is the author of seven poetry collections, including Breaking Into Blossom (Frontenac Press, 2025). She has translated four poetry books, notably Mirrors and Windows (Guernica Editions, 2021). Her work has appeared in Queen\u2019s Quarterly, ARC Poetry, The New York Times, China Daily, CBC Radio, and more. She has read on Parliament Hill, at international festivals, and at universities in China, Canada, and the U.S. A recipient of multiple awards and grants, she created and teaches Poetry Alive to bring poetry into schools, colleges, and communities.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][vc_single_image image=”353″ img_size=”full” style=”xtd-shadow–large-hard” css=”” el_class=”xtd-offset-frame”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1758465188536{margin-right: 20px !important;margin-left: 20px !important;padding-top: 60px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1758652481096{margin-bottom: 64px !important;}”]\n

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[vc_row el_id=”getting-here”][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1759043245682{margin-top: 60px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] Authors [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2\/3″][vc_column_text css=””] Anna Yin [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css=””]Anna Yin was Mississauga\u2019s inaugural Poet Laureate (2015\u20132017) and is the author of seven poetry collections, including Breaking Into Blossom (Frontenac Press, 2025). She has translated four poetry books, notably Mirrors and Windows (Guernica Editions, 2021). Her work has appeared in Queen\u2019s Quarterly, ARC Poetry, The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-461","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139,"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/461\/revisions\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/literaturefest.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}