2026 Knowlton Literary Festival
Julia Hune-Brown
Chinese Canadian theater artist, teacher, and author
In Julia Hune-Brown's Poh Poh's Sword, Poh Poh (Julia’s grandmother) dances with a sword. She swirls and leaps to the sound of Chinese opera music. When she was young, Poh Poh left her home and everything she knew to travel across the ocean to North America—what they knew as Gold Mountain. The one thing she brought was her sword, but she did not use it to fight. She used it to forge a new life for her family.
Julia Hune-Brown will be presenting her book: Poh Poh's Sword to Knowlton Academy Elementary School—which is part of the Knowlton Literary Association's mandate of bringing the joy of reading and writing directly to students in our community.
Julia Hune-Brown is a Chinese Canadian theater artist, teacher, and author. She based her debut picture book, Poh Poh's Sword, on a documentary she made about her grandmother for CBC Radio.
As a theater artist, she won awards for her community-engaged theater work. She has directed and facilitated performance projects with diverse communities across Canada.
Julia currently teaches in her hometown of Toronto, where she lives with her partner and their two young children.
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