Sandra Yuen

Sandra Yuen is an artist, writer, musician, videographer, and public speaker on recovery. Despite mental illness, she earned a Fine Arts Diploma from Langara College and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia in art history. She’s written a memoir My Schizophrenic Life: The Road to Recovery from Mental Illness, and two other books under the pen name Sandra Yuen MacKay. Her poetry has been published in Off the Map: Vancouver Writers With Lived Experience of Mental Health Issues. I Want to be Buried Standing Up is her first full-length poetry book.

Also Sandra is a drummer in an instrumental band, Beautiful Lizards. She received the Courage to Come Back Award and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. Currently, she paints florals, people, and house portraits using acrylics and watercolour. Her documentary film titled Downtown Eastside Dilemma is available on Youtube.