Jamie Marina Lau is a novelist and the author of ‘Pink Mountain on Locust Island’ and ‘Gunk Baby’. She was awarded the Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Readings Residency Award and Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelist. In 2022 Lau was selected to be a Fall resident and the Australian representative at the Iowa International Writers Program.
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Jamie Marina Lau
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