Lori M. Lee

Lori M. Lee is an author born in Laos who writes young-adult and middle-grade fantasy fiction. Her Gates of Thread and Stone series, beginning with the 2014 novel of the same name and continuing with The Infinite, follows a girl with the secret ability to manipulate the threads of time in a stratified fantasy city. She later wrote the Shamanborn duology, comprising Forest of Souls and Broken Web, drawing on Hmong folklore and shamanic tradition for its magic system. Lee has also launched the Pahua Moua chapter-book series for younger readers, including Pahua and the Soul Stealer and Pahua and the Dragon's Secret, centered on a young Hmong-American shaman-in-training. Her fiction consistently foregrounds Hmong cultural traditions within secondary-world and contemporary fantasy settings.