With sensitivity and tenderness, Starkie Mak has captured a tale of the immigrant experience, from the eyes of a child.
Starkie Mak is an artist and writer deeply in love with expressive drawing and painting. Her paintings have been exhibited across Europe and Asia. She illustrated for children's magazine Cotton Tree and is an art teacher educating children. The classic novel The Secret Garden sparked her interest in literature. Literature and illustration are indispensable parts of her life. She studied creative writing at the University of Oxford.
She moved to Toronto from Hong Kong in 2018.
