Jack Wong (黃雋喬) was born in Hong Kong and raised in Vancouver. In 2010, he left behind a life as a bridge engineer to pursue his Bachelor of Fine Arts at NSCAD University in Kjipuktuk / Halifax, Nova Scotia; he has called the east coast of Canada home ever since.
A self-declared actual Jack-of-all-trades, he has also tried his hand at bookkeeping, teaching art, managing a psychology research lab, and running his own bicycle repair shop, just to name a few—a real education for creating children’s books, if you ask him!
Working as a children’s author/illustrator, Jack seeks to share his winding journey with young readers so that they may embrace the unique amalgams of experiences that make up their own lives.
Jack’s debut picture book, WHEN YOU CAN SWIM (Scholastic 2023), received the 2023 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award in Picture Books, the 2023 Governor General’s Literary Award in Young People’s Literature – Illustrated Books, the 2024 Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, and was a finalist for the Ezra Jack Keats Award. His second picture book, THE WORDS WE SHARE (Annick Pres 2023), received the Ann Connor Brimer Award for Atlantic Canadian Children’s Literature, and was shortlisted for the Ontario Library Association’s Blue Spruce Award. His other titles include ALL THAT GROWS (Groundwood 2024), and forthcoming titles from Scholastic and Abrams Books for Young Readers.
