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Exclusive Interview: “All Our Ordinary Stories” Author / Artist Teresa Wong

 

It’s both a great and terrible time to be an immigrant, no matter what country you’re emigrating to. But it is in great and terrible times that we often get the best art.

In Teresa Wong’s new collection of cartoons, All Our Ordinary Stories (paperback, Kindle), she presents stories about “…my life growing up as a child of Chinese-Canadian immigrants.”

In the following email interview, Wong talks about what inspired and influenced this memoir, as well as whether she’s shown it to her parents yet.

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Exclusive Interview: “Dear Scarlet” Author / Artist Teresa Wong

 

According to the National Institute Of Mental Health, postpartum depression afflicts about 15% of new mothers. Yet despite these numbers, it’s still something that people look upon with shame, even those who suffer from it.

In the following email interview, writer and artist Teresa Wong discusses her new graphic novel memoir Dear Scarlet: The Story Of My Postpartum Depression (paperback), in which she reflects on the bout with postpartum depression she suffered after the birth of her daughter Scarlet.