[fleeing catastrophe]

Malissa Phung is a second-generation settler descendant of Sino-Vietnamese refugees who have resettled on the territories of the Tongva, Néhiyawk (Cree), Dene, Niitsitapi (Blackfoot), Métis, Nakoda (Stoney), and Anishinaabe (Ojibway/Saulteaux). She is a teaching stream professor in the School of Communication and Literary Studies at Sheridan College. Her literary and cultural studies research on Indigenous and Asian relationalities has been published in Canadian Literature, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures of the Americas, Postcolonial Text, and edited collections such as Refugee States: Critical Refugee Studies in Canada, and Cultivating Canada: Reconciliation through the Lens of Cultural Diversity.