Lee Lai

Lee Lai is an Australian cartoonist living in Tio’tia:ke (colonially known as Montreal, Canada). In 2021, she was selected as one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 for her debut graphic novel, Stone Fruit, which went on to win several awards, including the Lambda Literary Award, the Cartoonist Studio Prize, the Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize, and two Ignatz Awards. Her second graphic novel Cannon (Giramondo, 2025) won the Stella Prize, a Doug Wright Award and a Ping Award, and saw her named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist. Cannon was also shortlisted for a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, the QWF Literary Awards, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the GLAAD Media Awards and the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. The work was named a ‘best book of 2025’ by the New York Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, NPR, Guardian Australia and ABC Arts. Lee Lai’s comics have appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, the New York Times, Granta and the Museum of Modern Art’s Magazine.

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