KIM FU is a graduate of The University of British Columbia s MFA program in creative writing. She has written poetry, essays and long-form journalism for NPR, the National Post, Ms. Magazine, Maisonneuve, The Tyee, The Rumpus, Vancouver Magazine, Grain Magazine, Room and The New Quarterly, among others. Her work has been anthologized in Best Canadian Essays and nominated for three National Magazine Awards. For Today I Am a Boy, her debut novel, was a New York Times Book Review Editors Choice. Kim is the news columns editor for This, a magazine of progressive politics now in its 47th year.