Unflinching Empathy: An Interview with Mimi Lok
"You might love, hate, or feel conflicted about these characters—but the main thing is that you believe in them and feel compelled to follow them wherever they go": Mimi Lok and Eric McDowell talk process, empathy, and Lok's debut collection, Last of Her Name, out now from Kaya Press. “Last of Her Name,” the eponymous first story in Mimi Lok’s debut collection (Kaya Press, 2019), opens in the aftermath of a childhood stunt gone awry. Trying to act out a scene from The Return of the Condor Heroe