Ching-In Chen
Ching-In Chen is a genderqueer Chinese American writer.
They graduated from Tufts University, the University of California Riverside, and the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
They are the author of recombinant, The Heart's Traffic, and to make black paper sing. Chen is also the co-editor of the anthologies The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities and Here Is a Pen: An Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets. They have been a Callaloo, Kundiman, and Lambda Fellow.
Chen has taught in Sam Houston State University's English department and currently teaches in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington Bothell. They served as the staff advisor for Clamor, Bothell's literary magazine, alongside Amaranth Borsuk.
Career
Chen's first book, The Heart's Traffic (2009), is a "novel-in-poems" that employs multiple poetic forms, including the sestina, villanelle, haibun, and pantoum. The book focuses on the experiences of Xiaomei, a young immigrant from China to the United States.
Chen's second book, recombinant (2017), received the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry.
In 2024, Chen was selected as poet laureate of the city of Redmond, Washington.
Works
Author
- to make black paper sing (speCt! books, 2019).
- recombinant (Kelsey Street Press, 2017). ISBN 9780932716866, OCLC 1035945370
- The Heart's Traffic (Arktoi/Red Ren Press, 2009). ISBN 9780980040722, OCLC 641749078
Co-editor
- The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities (South End Press, 2011). ISBN 978-0-89608-794-1, OCLC 601132720
- Here Is a Pen: An Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets (Achiote Press, 2009). OCLC 775595869
References
- 1 2 "About Ching-In Chen". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
- 1 2 3 "Ching-In Chen". Poetry Foundation. 2019-08-04. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
- ↑ Lu, Catherine (12 April 2017). "National Poetry Month: 'to become diagram' And 'island where these things (seed)' By Ching-In Chen". Houston Public Media. University of Houston. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
- ↑ "The Heart's Traffic by Ching-In Chen". BookDragon: Books for the Multi-Culti Reader. Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. 24 September 2009.
- ↑ "Ching-In Chen". UW Bothell. Retrieved 2026-10-16.
- ↑ "The art must go on". UW Bothell. 2021-06-04. Retrieved 2026-10-16.
- ↑ "Review: Ching-In Chen's THE HEART'S TRAFFIC". Lantern Review Blog. November 9, 2009. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
- ↑ "30th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced". Lambda Literary. 5 June 2018.
- ↑ "Redmond Appoints Ching-In Chen as New Poet Laureate". Redmond, WA. 4 January 2024. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
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