Dickson Lam

Dickson Lam is a writer whose memoir Paper Sons: A Memoir won the 2017 Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize and was published by Autumn House Press in 2018. The book covers his life as a former teenage graffiti writer who became a high school teacher, along with family secrets from his immigrant household in San Francisco. He teaches English at Contra Costa College and has held residencies at the Millay Colony and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts.