Judy Fong Bates is the author of China Dog and other Tales from a Chinese Laundry, a collection of short fiction, published by Sister Vision Press. Her short stories have been broadcast on CBC radio and published in Fireweed: A Feminist Quarterly, This Magazine and the Canadian Forum. Judy Fong Bates came to Canada from China as a young child and grew up in several small Ontario towns. She lives with her family in Toronto where she is working on her first novel.