Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud

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Wellington, 1923, and a sixty-year-old woman hangs herself in a scullery; ten years later another woman falls from the second floor of a Taranaki tobacconist; soon afterwards a young mother in Taumarunui slices the throat of her newborn with a cleaver. All are women of the Chinese diaspora, who came to Aotearoa for a new life and suffered isolation and prejudice in silence. Chinese Pkeh writer Lee Murray has taken the nine-tailed fox spirit hli jng as her narrator to inhabit the skulls of these women and others like them and tell their stories. 'Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud' is an audacious blend of biography, mythology, horror and poetry that transcends genre to illuminate lives in the shadowlands of our history.

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Lee Murray is a third-generation Chinese New Zealander and multi-award-winning author, poet and anthology editor. Her manuscript of Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud won her the GrimshawSargeson Fellowship at the development stage and the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize when it was complete. She has won five Bram Stoker Awards, awarded by the international Horror Writers Association for superior achievement, and in New Zealand she has been made an NZSA Honorary Literary Fellow for services to speculative fiction and horror. Her poem Cheongsam won the 2021 Australian Shadows Award. She lives in the Bay of Plenty with her husband and son.