Kim Fu is a writer of science fiction. They also teach writing, co-host the podcast "The Rough Puffs," and produce electronic music under the name DJ Foof.Fu's stories have appeared in the New York Times, Granta, the Atlantic, BOMB, Hazlitt, and the TLS. Their first novel, "For Today I Am a Boy," was published in 2014 and won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award. Their second novel, "The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore," was published in 2018. Their third book, the collection "Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century," was published in 2022.Kim Fu is the author of two novels, a collection of poetry, and most recently, the story collection Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award and a finalist for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Fu has been longlisted for the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Prize for mid-career authors.Fu’s first novel, It was also a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, and the Lambda Literary Awards, as well as a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. Her second novel, The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Awards and the Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award.