Lee Lai (born 1993)[1] is a transgender,[2] Asian-Australian cartoonist who presently lives in Canada.
In 2021, the National Book Foundation named her an honoree of their 5 Under 35 award for her debut graphic novel, Stone Fruit.
[1] The following year, Stone Fruit won the Lambda Literary Award for Graphic Novel/Comics,[3][4] and was a finalist for the Barbara Gittings Literature Award[5] and Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Graphic Novel/Comics.
[1] Lai became interested in comics because of mild dyslexia, which made reading traditional novels difficult.
[2] Her short story comics have been published in The New Yorker, The Lifted Brow, Room Magazine, and Everyday Feminism.