Linda Rui Feng is a writer and cultural historian based in Toronto. Her prose and poems have appeared in journals such as Kenyon Review Online, The Saint Ann’s Review, Santa Monica Review, Salamander, and Washington Square Review. Her debut novel, Swimming Back to Trout River (Simon & Schuster, 2021), traces the far-flung orbits of a family across two continents, and explores the themes of music and migration in the aftermath of one of China’s most tumultuous eras. At MacDowell, she began work on a second novel, a multi-generational story about an immigrant nanny at the end of her life. She also completed final edits for Swimming Back to Trout River.
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Linda Rui Feng
Discipline:
Literature – fiction
Region: Toronto, CANADA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2015, 2019
More:
lindaruifeng.com
Studios
Monday Music
Linda Rui Feng worked in the Monday Music studio.
Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…