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Lisa Ko
Lisa Ko is the author of The Leavers, a novel which won the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Her writing has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2016, The New York Times, Apogee Journal, Narrative, O. Magazine, Copper Nickel, Storychord, One Teen Story, Brooklyn Review, and elsewhere. Lisa has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the MacDowell Colony, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, Writers OMI at Ledig House, the Jerome Foundation, Blue Mountain Center, the Van Lier Foundation, Hawthornden Castle, the I-Park Foundation, the Anderson Center, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center. Born in Queens and raised in Jersey, she lives in Brooklyn.
Genres: Literary Fiction
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"Sharp, fast-moving, and often hilarious, Which Side Are You On is a must-read: a story of Asian American relationships--familial, intergenerational, and otherwise--through the lens of Black-Asian histories, community organizing, and radical politics."
Fiona and Jane (2022)
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"Loving and fierce, sharp and emotionally resonant, Fiona and Jane is not only the story of two best friends as they grow into adulthood--it's a love letter to Asian American women's friendship, in all of its most beautiful and heartbreaking iterations."
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The Son of Good Fortune (2020)
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