Lisa Ko

Lisa Ko is an American writer best known for The Leavers, her debut novel, which won the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction and was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories and McSweeney's, and her essays in The New York Times and The Believer. Ko's second novel, Memory Piece, a work of science fiction published in 2024, follows three women whose friendship spans decades in New York City.