Lisa Ko is the author of the novel Memory Piece, which was longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize, the Gotham Book Prize, and the New American Voices Award, and named one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of summer 2024. Ko’s nationally bestselling novel The Leavers was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award, and winner of the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Ko’s writing has appeared in Best American Short Stories, McSweeney’s, and The Believer.
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