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Teresa Wong

My guest on this episode is Teresa Wong. Teresa is an author and artist whose work has appeared in The Believer, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s and The Walrus. Her first book, the graphic novel Dear Scarlet, was longlisted for CBC Canada Reads. Her most recent book is the graphic novel All Our Ordinar…

Why this Pulitzer Prize winner is done with writing books

Tessa Hulls won a Pulitzer Prize for her first book. So why is it also her last? Tessa’s graphic memoir, Feeding Ghosts, unravels the stories of three women in her family: her Chinese grandmother, her mother and herself. It’s an emotional, complex and beautifully illustrated book that took Tessa al…

S2E4: Teresa Wong: ‘Dear Scarlet’ - giving voice to the experience of postpartum depression with unflinching clarity and self-compassion.

Welcome back to the Maternal Journal podcast - a deep dive into the power of journaling and creativity to support mental health and wellbeing through pregnancy, birth and parenting.  In this episode, host Laura Godfrey-Isaacs speaks to Canadian writer and memoirist, Theresa Wong, who’s deeply movin…

17 From Hybrid to Self-Publishing

For the full interview with Maggie Smith, tune in to The Spark wherever you listen to podcasts. 📚 Recommendation for ravenous readers Here is the recommended read for December. All Our Ordinary Stories by Teresa Wong Beginning with her mother’s stroke in 2014, Teresa Wong takes us on a moving journ…

18 Comics and Traditional Chinese Painting

This will be the last edition of The Spark podcast and newsletter, maybe for a while, maybe ever. I will be using the time freed up to focus on my short story collection, Staring into the Sun. I do love The Spark as a means to connect to other writers, so we’ll see what happens to it. For the full …

In Calgary’s Chinatown, Teresa Wong Revisits A Family History

Calgary cartoonist and author Teresa Wong is the author of the 2024 graphic memoir "All Our Ordinary Stories." Her great-grandfather came to Calgary more than a century ago—but the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1923 kept the rest of his family from following. Now Wong has created a new piece of artwork …

Sprawlcast - Episode June 1, 2026

In Calgary’s Chinatown, Teresa Wong Revisits A Family History Calgary cartoonist and author Teresa Wong is the author of the 2024 graphic memoir "All Our Ordinary Stories." Her great-grandfather came to Calgary more than a century ago—but the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1923 kept the rest of his fa…

Sprawlcast - Episode June 1, 2026

In Calgary’s Chinatown, Teresa Wong Revisits A Family History Calgary cartoonist and author Teresa Wong is the author of the 2024 graphic memoir "All Our Ordinary Stories." Her great-grandfather came to Calgary more than a century ago—but the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1923 kept the rest of his fa…

Teresa Wong’s Parents Swam to Freedom But Didn’t Bother Going To Her Graduation

Content Warning: This episode discusses postpartum depression. Canadian graphic memoirist Teresa Wong has had experiences with parenting that didn’t really match the way things usually go. Her parents were city kids in China sent to work on rural communes during Mao’s cultural revolution. They esc…

More than the Baby Blues (with Teresa Wong)

Teresa Wong loved her newborn daughter. At the same time, she wondered if she hated her. After giving birth to Scarlet, Teresa found herself consumed by exhaustion, shame, isolation, and self-loathing. In her graphic memoir, Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression, she turns that e…