Year of the Cicada is a collection of poetry and prose that charts author Mei-Mei Holland's coming-of-age as an Asian American framed around the emergence of the 17-year cicada.
Mei-Mei Holland is a mixed-race Chinese-American writer from the Washington, DC area, where she grew up the middle child in a family of three sisters. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her partner and her dog, Horatio. Year of the Cicada is Mei- Mei's debut collection of poetry and prose.
