Profile: Li Miao Lovett

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Li Miao Lovett

member since May 28, 2010

http://limiaolovett.com

Li Miao has shown interest in Race & Demographics, Employment Issues, Environment

About Li Miao Lovett

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.

Work Samples

Fields of Overkill - Conservation, farmers scorched by food safety concerns In response to 2006 E. coli outbreaks, corporate buyers are pushing California farmers in the Central Valley to rid their fields of all wildlife and wild vegetation – despite the fact that this could make the food supply even less safe.

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