Doretta Lau is a journalist covering contemporary art, music, literature, and film for Artforum, South China Morning Post, The Wall Street Journal Asia, and Bazaar Art Hong Kong. She completed an MFA in Writing at Columbia University. While in New York, she was an editorial assistant for NOON, a literary annual edited by Diane Williams. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in the Canadian and American journals Event, Grain Magazine, Prairie Fire, PRISM International, RicePaper, sub-TERRAIN, and Zen Monster. She splits her time between Vancouver and Hong Kong, where she is working on a novel and a screenplay. In 2014, her short story collection ‘How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?’ will be published by Nightwood Editions.