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Tsering Yangzom Lama
Tsering Yangzom Lama’s debut novel, We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies, won the GLCA New Writers Award and the Banff Mountain Book Award for Fiction & Poetry. It was nominated for several prestigious awards, including The Giller Prize and The Carol Shields Prize. Tsering holds an MFA from Columbia University and a BA from the University of British Columbia. The novel is published in English in Canada, the U.S., and India, with translations in multiple languages. She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and her writing has appeared in numerous esteemed publications and anthologies. Tsering is also a co-founder of LhakarDiaries, a leading English-language blog among Tibetan youth in exile.