JENNY HEIJUN WILLS was born in Seoul, South Korea and was adopted and raised in a white family in Southern Ontario, Canada. She is the author of Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related., which won the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Nonfiction Prize in 2019 and the Manitoba Book Awards' Best First Book Prize in 2020. She is a Fulbright Alum (Harvard) and in 2015 was Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. She holds two BA-Hons (Journalism, English), an MA, and a PhD. She currently teaches at the University of Winnipeg in Manitoba.
