About L.K.S. Lapis
L.K.S. Lapis has been, in various times and places, a newspaper reporter, NGO staffer, small business owner, international travel agent, teacher, filmmaker, and political activist. Under several names, they have published fiction in Ploughshares, The Mind’s Eye, and The Best Young Writers and Artists in America; been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and the Bocock-Guerard Prize for Fiction at Stanford University; taught literature at Columbia University, where they earned an MFA in Fiction; and made short and feature-length community-based independent films.
Outside of the arts and letters, they have worked in nonprofit educational programming for students of color, co-founded a green energy storage company, advised on Democratic political campaigns, and volunteered for progressive causes. A proud queer activisit, they are currently married to an undocumented spouse at risk of deportation. For these reasons, among others, for their current fiction they employ the pen name L.K.S. Lapis, derived loosely from a favorite Malaysian food and beautiful Afghan semi-precious stone. They come from a multifaith, multiethnic family with roots in several countries. They are a practicing Buddhist.
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