Kangkang Li Kovacs grew up in Nanchang, China and came to the United States for her graduate studies. After earning a PhD in nuclear physics at the University of Virginia and teaching math and physics at UC Santa Barbara, Kovacs decided to pursue her passion for writing. She received her M.F.A. at the College of Charleston. Her writing has been published in Jellyfish Review and swamp pink literary magazine, among other outlets. Nothing to My Name is her first novel.
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Inspired by the author’s own family history, and spanning the past hundred years of Chinese history, this multi-generational family saga explores how women survive the tsunamis of history Nothing to My Name chronicles the intertwined fates of thr... SEE MORE