About The Author Of Anchorless

Jolie Phuong Hoang is a retired college professor of mathematics (June 2025). Jolie escaped Vietnam in 1983 with five siblings and settled in Canada in 1984. Besides her daytime job teaching mathematics, writing is her concealed passion that has patiently waited for the right time to reveal itself.

Her debut, Anchorless, published on December 12, 2019, received First Prize, Literary Fiction by North Street Book Prize, North Hampton, Massachusetts; Honorable Mention by San Francisco Book Festival; Runner-Up by New England Book Festival; Bronze Medal by Wishing Shelf Book Awards, UK. In addition, her essay, June Sisters, made the shortlist for the Surrey International Writers' Conference in 2020.

Her second creative non-fiction, Three Funerals for My Father: Love, Loss and Escape from Vietnam, published in October 2021 by Tidewater Press, Vancouver, BC, was shortlisted for the Hamilton Literary Awards in December 2022. Jolie lives with her daughters in Ontario.