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Mercenary English seizes "the politics of language" and foregrounds the literal and figurative violence behind the euphemism "missing women."
About the author
Mercedes Eng is the author of
Mercenary English,
Prison Industrial Complex Explodes, winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize,
my yt mama, and
cop city swagger. Her writing has appeared in
Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers' Poetry,
Jacket 2,
Asian American Literary Review,
The Capilano Review* and
The Abolitionist. She was the Writer-in-Residence and a Shadbolt Fellow at Simon Fraser University and recently co-curated her first exhibition with Keimi Nakashima-Ochoa,
Inside/Out: the art show my dad never had* Mercedes teaches at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, where she organizes the On Edge reading series.
Summary
Mercedes Eng’s first book is a risky and profoundly unsettling work of “auto-cartography,” documenting the struggles and politics of everyday life in Vancouver, foregrounding the literal and figurative violence behind the euphemism “missing women,” resistance to the Olympic-Industrial Complex, and other legacies of colonialism that continue to haunt the fragile “City of Glass.”
