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Ching-In Chen

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Ching-In Chen is author of Shiny City, recombinant (2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry), and The Heart's Traffic: a novel in poems, as well as chapbooks to make black paper sing and Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters (Leslie Scalapino Finalist). Chen is co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities. They are a Kelsey Street Press collective member, Airlie Press editor and Nonfiction Coordinator for Best of the Net. They serve on Seattle's Cultural Space Agency’s Governing Council and on Seattle City of Literature’s board. They received fellowships from Kundiman, Lambda, Watering Hole, Can Serrat, Imagining America, Jack Straw Cultural Center, EmergeNY ...more

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The Heart's Traffic

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Recombinant

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To Make Black Paper Sing

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Breathing Space

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Shiny City

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Dojiang hi Ching-In, just wanted to say thank you for some really interesting sci-fi books you posted up recently! am adding them to my to-read list too!


message 6: by Jaree

Jaree Francis Hello, how are you, Ms. Lady?

- Jay


message 5: by Alvin

Alvin Hi! look me up on Facebook. Thanks for your note, btw.... sorry it took me so long to check my Goodreads acct!


Sharline Hey, girl. Question, how many books do you read in a month?


message 3: by Sarah

Sarah Better get reading!


Ching-In thanks t -- excited to read it!


message 1: by Tara

Tara Betts Hey Ching-In,
I just had to say that I LOOOOVE Essex Hemphill's CEREMONIES, and seeing his anthology in your list made me want to go back to it. Talk more soon.


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