Doretta Lau is a journalist who covers arts and culture 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. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Event, Grain Magazine, Prairie Fire, Prism International, RicePaper, SubTerrain and Zen Monster. She splits her time between Vancouver and Hong Kong, where she is at work on a novel and a screenplay.