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Li Miao Lovett

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September 06, 1968

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March 2010

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Li Miao Lovett began her writing career after a 600-mile backpacking trip on the Appalachian Trail where she encountered a stalker, a compulsive poet, and ten thousand mosquitoes. Her time spent backpacking abroad and in the deserts of the American West has inspired her much of her writing. She has been a frequent contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle and KQED Perspectives. Her work has also appeared in Narrative Magazine, Earth Island Journal, China Rights Forum, and the Bay Citizen. Li has organized events showcasing the works of dissident and censored writers. In both fiction and nonfiction, Lis work has won awards or finalist standing from Glimmer Train, Writers Digest, Stanford Magazine, and the James Jones First Novel Fellowship....more

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Travel, My Long Lost Lover

We stood in the middle of a deserted parking lot, a few miles past the Yosemite National Park entrance.

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Average rating: 3.60 · 55 ratings · 21 reviews · 1 distinct work

In the Lap of the Gods

3.60 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions

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Great House

by Nicole Krauss

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Jan 06, 2011 12:58pm

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The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

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Li Miao said "yes" to attending the event: Goodreads Giveaway for The Chalk Circle! date: March 28, 2012 06:13AM location: Goodreads, The United States description: My publisher is giving away two free copies of the upcoming collection I edited, titled "The Chalk Circle: Intercultural Prizewinning Essays." Free to sign up! "Tara L. Masih has assembled a stunning collection. . . . The range of cultural diversity and personal complexity packed into this slim, beautiful volume is staggering and far outstrips any other collection out there. These now-American writers and travelers experience the intercultural encounter at home, overseas, within their own communi...more
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Li Miao added: The Chinese Dream: The Rise Of The World's Largest Middle Class And What It Means To You by Helen H. Wang (Goodreads Author)	My rating:
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Li Miao gave to: Where the Dog Star Never Glows by Tara L. Masih (Goodreads Author) read in February, 2011	My rating:
Going from one story to another in Where the Dog Star Never Glows, I am transported convincingly to different times and places. And that’s what is refreshing about Tara's collection; you can’t peg her as a writer of a certain ethnicity. Her stories s...more
Feb 11, 2011 01:09pm · see review
Li Miao is currently reading: Great House by Nicole Krauss	My rating:
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