Chelene Knight, a graduate of The Writer’s Studio at SFU, has been published in Sassafras Literary Magazine, Room, emerge 2013 and Raven Chronicles and is a member of the editorial board at Room. Braided Skin, her debut book, is deeply rooted in her experiences of mixed ethnicity. Her mother is African­-American, and her father and his family were victims of the Asian expulsion in Uganda during the 70s, when President Idi Amin led a campaign of “de­Indianization,” resulting in the “ethnic cleansing” of the country’s Indian minority.

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