Tsering Yangzom Lama is a Tibetan writer who was born in Nepal and has lived in the United States and Canada. A 2018 Tin House Scholar, she has received grants and residencies from Canada Council for the Arts, Barbara Deming Fund, Banff Center, Hedgebrook, Lillian E. Smith Center, Omi International, Catwalk Institute, WildAcres, VSC, and Playa Summerlake. She earned her MFA in writing from Columbia University, and has published in the Malahat Review, Grain, Vela, LaLit, and Himal SouthAsian, Old Demons New Deities: 21 Short Stories from Tibet, and House of Snow: An Anthology of the Greatest Writing About Nepal.
Proof Casts a Shadow
A Wire Fence
At age twenty-six, I saw my country for the first time. For fifteen minutes, I stood on its edge. It was a seven-day trek to the border of Tibet and […]