Linda Rui Feng was born in Shanghai and has lived in San Francisco, New York and Toronto. She is a graduate of Harvard and Columbia Universities and is currently a professor of Chinese cultural history at the University of Toronto. She has been twice awarded a MacDowell Fellowship for her fiction and her prose and poetry have appeared in journals such as The Fiddlehead, The Kenyon Review, Santa Monica Review and Washington Square Review. Swimming Back to Trout River is her first novel.