Mimi Lok

Mimi Lok is a British-Chinese author, editor, and educator. She is the recipient of a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award, A PEN America Award, and a California Book Award for Fiction. She is also the founder of Voice of Witness, an award-winning human rights and oral history nonprofit organization focused on amplifying marginalized voices through a book series and a national education program.

Her debut short story collection, Last of Her Name (Kaya Press, 2019) is the winner of the 2020 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, and a California Book Award silver medal for first fiction, and was a finalist for The California Independent Bookseller Alliance ‘Golden Poppy’ Book Awards 2020, and CLMP Firecracker Award. The novella from the collection, "The Woman in the Closet" was a finalist for the 2020 National Magazine Award, Some of the key themes that the author contemplates are human connection, the Asian diaspora, and empathy. Her work has been published in McSweeney's, Electric Literature, Nimrod, Lucky Peach, Hyphen, and the South China Morning Post.