Joan Li

Biography

Joan Li is Chinese-American writer from southeastern Connecticut. Her work has been published in The Rumpus, New England Review, Salt Hill, and elsewhere. Prior to attending the Iowa Writers’ Workshop to work on her fiction, she graduated from Harvard with a degree in English Literature and cosplayed as brand strategist for Big Milk among other breakfast foods. She loves reading novels with tender details and complex relationships, but she also can’t resist saccharine manga. She is taking recommendations for period dramas and K-dramas to watch.

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