Donna Seaman Interviews Dika Lam

Dika Lam (with Stacy Bierlein and Gina Frangello)

Canadian-born and Brooklyn-based, Dika Lam is has received a New York Times Fellowship from New York University, a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers Conference, and is a winner of the Bronx Writers' Center Chapter One Contest. Her work has appeared in Story, One Story, and the Cincinnati Review, and her stories have been anthologized in Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops (1999) and This Is Not Chick Lit.

Lam is also a contributor to the anthology A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cultural Collision and Connection; her story is titled "Fresh Off the Boat." She joined the book's editor, Stacy Bierlein and contributor and publisher Gina Frangello on a field edition of Open Books to talk about A Stranger Among Us at the Printers Row Book Fair in Chicago in June 2008.

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