Erica Li

Represented by Mia Dakin
Erica Li

Erica Li is a British-Hong Kong writer based in London. She studied law at the University of Hong Kong and the University of Oxford, and went on to practise as an international arbitration lawyer.

 

Her debut novel, A THOUSAND RIVERS OF TIME, won the inaugural Footnote x Counterpoints Prize for Fiction and the Ascent Novel Prize in 2026, and was shortlisted for the MerkyBooks New Writers’ Prize in 2025. The manuscript was also selected for the HarperCollins Author Academy, and she gained representation from Greene & Heaton through the Greene Door Project.