Li Miao Lovett began contributing to the San Francisco Chronicle in 2001 with articles spotlighting the work of nonprofits in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has written about environmental issues in the U.S. and China for Earth Island Journal, Narrative Magazine, High Country News, and KQED public radio. Her work has won awards in both fiction and nonfiction. In 2006, she organized events for Words Without Borders showcasing the works of dissidents and censored writers. Her forthcoming novel, In the Lap of the Gods (Leapfrog Press, Nov. 2010), portrays the lives of migrants displaced by China’s Three Gorges Dam.