Lee Lai was born in 1993 in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Currently, Lai makes comics and illustrations in Tio'tia: ke (Montreal), Quebec. Her short story comics have been featured in The New Yorker, The Lifted Brow, Room Magazine, and Everyday Feminism.
The way Lai illustrates emotional truths that can be hard to say with words is stunning. The sheer humanness of this story took my breath away.--Book Riot Lee Lai draws what it's really like to fall in love.--Vice Lee Lai's graphic novel debut is an elegantly illustrated and introspective marvel, a deeply moving story about the push and pull between family and selfhood. ... [A] book that will change the literary landscape in 2021.--O The Oprah Magazine Lee Lai perfectly composes the intricacies of intimacy, the families we stem from and those we grow into. I love her work, the way she pushes around gouache and captures dialogue to render moments so naturalistic, heartbreaking, and humane.--Craig Thompson (Blankets, Habibi)