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Lisa Ko

Lisa Ko
Lisa Ko is the author of The Leavers, a novel which won the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction and will be published by Algonquin Books in May 2017. 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. A co-founder of Hyphen and a fiction editor at Drunken Boat, Lisa has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the MacDowell Colony, among others.


Lisa Ko: How Writing a Novel is Like Wandering a Flea Market

“Don’t be too precious about things. And also: everything has the potential to be precious.”
March 22, 2024  By Lisa Ko
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Not Finishing My Novel Would Have Ruined My Life

Lisa Ko with Notes on the Long Game That is Writing
May 3, 2017  By Lisa Ko
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