Jane Bahk is a children book author who is the writer of

Juna's Jar ''Juna's Jar'' is a children's picture book written by Jane Bahk and with illustrations by Felicia Hoshino. The book tells the story of Juna, a little girl whose best friend left to live somewhere else. Through her imagination, she finds solitud ...

Personal life

She was born in

Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ...

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. She is a former MMA straw weight champion. She is a former school teacher. Her parents immigrated from

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Awards

Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature The Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature (APAAL) are a set of literary awards presented annually by the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA). The APALA was formed in 1980 "to create an organization that would address the n ...

for Picture Book in 2015-2016 * New Voices Award in 2010

Works

* Juna and Appa

References

1986 births Living people Canadian women children's writers Canadian writers of Asian descent Writers from Toronto Canadian people of Korean descent 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian schoolteachers 20th-century Canadian educators Canadian women educators {{Canada-writer-stub