Ann is a writer, filmmaker and award-winning poet. Her documentary My Enemy, My Brother was shortlisted for a 2016 Academy Award and nominated for an Emmy. Her previous documentary, The Defector: Escape from North Korea won 7 awards including Best Documentary and Best Documentary Director at the 2014 Canadian Screen Academy and is the basis for her first novel THE LAST EXILES. Her poetry book THE FAMILY CHINA received the Anne Green Award. Ann lives in Toronto with her partner, two daughters and two cats.
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The Last Exiles
An unforgettable saga inspired by true events, THE LAST EXILES is a searing portrait of a young couple in North Korea and their fight for love and freedom. In this vivid and moving story, award-winning filmmaker Ann Shin offers a rare glimpse at life inside the guarded walls of North Korea. Inspired by real stories of incredible bravery, the Last Exiles is a stunning debut about love, sacrifice and the price of liberty.
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The Family China
Poems about the sense of belonging, about the tenuous ties we make across borders both international and internal.
In THE FAMILY CHINA, her second book of poems, Ann Shin examines the decentering experiences of migration, loss and death, and the impulse to build anew. In five suites threaded through with footnote-like fragments that haunt and ambush the text like memories, the book accrues associations, building and transforming images from poem to poem, creating a layered and cohesive collection that asks daring questions about how we define ourselves.
These poems grapple rawly and musically with the profound messiness of human relations; strung up between an untenable nostalgia for the pastoral and a deep unease with the global, the voice of these poems is nevertheless determined to find some scrap of a song we can sing in common.
The Last Thing Standing
In THE LAST THING STANDING, Shin pulls away floors and ceilings in a thoughtful meditation on the concept of home. From the many lives contained within four walls of a house, to the mortar and beams that keep it standing, she is a telling witness to the love, anger, and poignant solitudes that form the spaces we inhabit and make our own.
Crossroads Cant
CROSSROADS CANT brings together spoken word and song word in a collection which explores the yearnings and conflicts in identity and language. Featuring four Canadian performance poets who are influenced by the traditions, sounds and images of the oral cultures they have inherited - from Ireland, the Ojibway Nation, Dominica and Korea. These poets excavate the conflicts of identity in language in a book that is the crossroads of word, music and cultures.