The pigeon first flew to me the same morning that a stranger found my grandfather melting into the midsummer pavement in a mirage of dementia. My mother texted me that his hospital room had sealed windows facing a...
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Megan Lui
A native New Yorker, Megan Lui is a sixth-generation Chinese-American writer, food photographer, visual artist, daughter of immigrants, and cancer survivor. For the last decade, she has been working on an illustrated speculative novel-slash-cookbook that weaves her own personal story of battling cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic while working on Wall Street, with the stories of generations of her ancestors, including her Transcontinental Railroad and Angel Island detainee ancestors. Megan has written about her family's story for Singapore Unbound's SUSPECT magazine, while New York magazine's Curbed has also profiled her family's story in the wake of the 2021 Rally Against Hate at New York City's Columbus Park. Megan's work has received support from Tin House and The Kenyon Review, and she has been a finalist for fellowships from One Story and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. Her novel manuscript was shortlisted for the de Groot Foundation’s 2024 First Pages Prize for Fiction, while her flash fiction has been shortlisted for Fractured Literary's Anthology 5 Prize and longlisted for LitMag's 2024 Anton Chekhov Award. She has an AB in History of Art and a certificate in Chinese Language and Culture from Princeton University. She is a proud alumna of Prep for Prep and currently serves as a Trustee and the President of the Alumnae Association at the Brearley School.