Sennah Yee is a Toronto-based writer and film producer.
She is the author of the poetry collection How Do I Look? (Metatron Press) and the children’s book My Day With Gong Gong (Annick Press, Blue Spruce Award nominee). Her new poetry manuscript Rushes was a finalist for Nightboat’s 2025 Poetry Prize.
Her work has been featured in Arc Poetry Magazine, Guernica Editions’ Changing The Face of Canadian Literature: A Diverse Canadian Anthology, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s The Margins, and has been translated into Spanish by Paloma Ediciones and Blackie Books.
Sennah is the co-founder and managing editor of the online film journal In The Mood Magazine. She has an MA in Cinema & Media Studies from York University, where she focused her thesis on gendered robots in pop culture.
She is the producer of the feature films Retrograde (2022) and Withdrawn (2017), which both premiered at Slamdance Film Festival. Her third feature Pocket Mirror is currently in post-production.
photo: Kafayé @communityhousing
She is the author of the poetry collection How Do I Look? (Metatron Press) and the children’s book My Day With Gong Gong (Annick Press, Blue Spruce Award nominee). Her new poetry manuscript Rushes was a finalist for Nightboat’s 2025 Poetry Prize.
Her work has been featured in Arc Poetry Magazine, Guernica Editions’ Changing The Face of Canadian Literature: A Diverse Canadian Anthology, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s The Margins, and has been translated into Spanish by Paloma Ediciones and Blackie Books.
Sennah is the co-founder and managing editor of the online film journal In The Mood Magazine. She has an MA in Cinema & Media Studies from York University, where she focused her thesis on gendered robots in pop culture.
She is the producer of the feature films Retrograde (2022) and Withdrawn (2017), which both premiered at Slamdance Film Festival. Her third feature Pocket Mirror is currently in post-production.
photo: Kafayé @communityhousing