Li Miao Lovett is the author of the novel, In the Lap of the Gods (Leapfrog Press, 2010) a tale of the dammed and displaced in China’s Three Gorges. In 2013 Li was awarded a major grant from the Fund for Investigative Journalism to produce a radio program about pesticide exposure. She has been a frequent contributor to the San Francisco Chronicle, New America Media, and KQED “Perspectives.” In both fiction and nonfiction, Li’s work has won awards or finalist standing from Glimmer Train, Writer’s Digest, Stanford Magazine,National League of American Pen Women, and the James Jones First Novel Fellowship. Li attended the Community of Writers in 2006. www.limiaolovett.com