Linda Rui Feng

Linda Rui Feng is a writer and cultural historian. She is the author of the novel Swimming Back to Trout River, which 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. She is a faculty member in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto, where her research takes her to texts from the ninth century, maps from the early modern era, and, more recently, to the cross-cultural history of scent and aromatics. She is at work on a new novel.