Lindsay Wong is known for her fearless writing and askew sense of humour  as she chronicles adventures and disasters with copious amounts of playfulness and generosity.

She is the author of the #1 bestselling debut memoir The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family, which won the 2019 Hubert Evans Nonfiction Prize and was named one of the Best Books of 2018 by Newsweek, CBC Books, the Globe and Mail, and the Quill and Quire. It was also a finalist for the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize and Canada Reads 2019. The Woo-Woo has also been optioned for TV by NBC/Escape Artists.

Lindsay's debut YA novel, My Summer of Love and Misfortune (2020), is set in the decadent world of high-society Beijing and has been called Confessions of a Shopaholic meets Crazy Rich Asians. Lindsay holds a BFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and an MFA in literary nonfiction from Columbia University.