Laurie Tom is a Chinese American living in Southern California. She won Writers of the Future in 2010 and was published in volume 26. She starting writing when she was 12 and has been writing 10 years before submitting her first story to F&SF and promptly got her first reject. Her skill eventually caught up with her enthusiasm. She can't not write. She is a compulsive outliner for her short stories which makes for amazing short fiction.
You can find Laurie at
www.curiousfictions.com/authors/52-laurie-tom
Or on Twitter @writerrat
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