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Engkent, Garry
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Engkent, Gary
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Garry Engkent was born in China in the Sunwui county of Guangdong province. He immigrated to Canada in the 1950s, completing a PhD in English at the University of Toronto, after which he taught English, creative writing and English literature at Toronto Metropolitan University and at the University of Toronto.
Garry explores the Chinese immigrant experience through creative writing. He is author of the much-anthologized, Why My Mother Can’t Speak English, and a frequent contributor to Ricepaper magazine.
In his retirement, his writing of fiction has branched out to horror and science fiction genres.
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http://viaf.org/viaf/106240791
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Created by Alston So, March 2026.