Press Kit

Sandra SG Wong (she/her) holds a B.A. (Honours) in English Literature from the University of Alberta. She speaks four languages at varying levels of proficiency and usually only curses in one of them. She is a member of The Writers Union of Canada, the Writers’ Guild of Alberta, and Sisters in Crime—Canada West. Currently, she also serves as National President of Sisters in Crime.

Sandra has been a speaker and presenter at such disparate events as Comics Expos in Edmonton and Calgary, the When Words Collide all-genre readers festival, Bloody Words XIII mystery convention, Word on the Square literary readings, the Noir at the Bar series (in Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver), the Pure Speculation Science Fiction Festival, where she was Guest of Honour in 2019, and Bouchercon (World Mystery Convention). She has also given workshops for the Edmonton Public School Board, LitFest (Canada’s only non-fiction literary festival), the Edmonton Public Library, and ChiSeries Winnipeg. She has spoken at events by invitation of the writers-in-residence with the Edmonton Public Library, the Vancouver Public Library, and the University of Alberta. In 2017, she inaugurated the Capital City Press initiative for the Edmonton Public Library as its first-ever Featured Writer.

Sandra’s debut novel, DIE ON YOUR FEET, was originally published under the pan name “SG Wong” in 2013 as an ebook, by Carina Press. It was a finalist for a 2014 Arthur Ellis Award for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing for Best Crime First Novel.

Having parted ways amicably with Carina Press, Sandra publishes the Lola Starke series independently. IN FOR A POUND was longlisted for a 2016 Whistler Independent Book Award. Both it and DEVIL TAKE THE HINDMOST are Library Journal SELF-e selections. Her second Crescent City short story, “Movable Type,” was a finalist for a 2016 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Short Story.

Sandra has also served as a “Blue Pencil” mentor with the Canadian Literature Centre at the University of Alberta, and as a mentor with the Borderlines Writers Circle through the Writers’ Guild of Alberta. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta, on Treaty Six land, with her family.

Sandra SG Wong is represented by Lauren Abramo, with Dystel Goderich & Bourret.