Linda Rui Feng

At the University of Toronto, her work in Chinese cultural history ranges from the history of cartography and, more recently, to the history of scent and aromatics. Her 2021 novel, Swimming Back to Trout River, 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 in the twentieth century. At Sitka she will be working on a story collection that asks what it means for us to cross the Pacific Ocean.