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Yu-Han Chao

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Yu-Han Chao was born and grew up in Taipei, Taiwan. She received her MFA from Penn State, taught at UC Merced, and is a newly minted Registered Nurse. The Backwaters Press (an imprint of University of Nebraska Press) published her poetry book, We Grow Old, in 2008. Dancing Girl Press, Imaginary Friend Press, Another New Calligraphy, and BOAAT Press published her chapbooks. Red Hen Press published her short story collection, Sex & Taipei City, in April 2019. She blogs about writing and nursing at www.yuhanchao.com ...more

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	Sex & Taipei City 3.79 avg rating — 53 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Magic.: a magical cat friend. by Zoe Chao-Juarez, Yu-Han Chao (Goodreads Author) 4.78 avg rating — 18 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Warrior Review Fall/Winter 2016 43.1 by María Isabel Alvarez, Ana Crouch Ureña, Brett Finlayson really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Body Electric by Aimee Herman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Marianne Boruch (Contributor), J.J. Hastain (Contributor) 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Body is Not A Textbook, But You Are My Mango 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Alphabet Between Legs 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Grow Old 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soundings East Volume 41 by Gale Acuff, O-Jeremiah Agbaakin (Contributor ), Carl Boon (Contributor ) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peacock Journal - Anthology: Beauty First [Vol II, No 1] by W.F. Lantry (Goodreads Author) (editor), Inna Dulchevsky (Contributor), Donelle Dreese (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Warrior Review, Fall/Winter 2016, Issue 43.1 by Yu-Han Chao (Goodreads Author), Megan Giddings, Caolan Madden 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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MAGIC: a children's book by Zoe Chao-Juarez & Yu-Han Chao

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Do you have a cat friend in your life? Maybe one with "black cat energy" who comes and goes as it pleases?
When Zoe was 11 we started a story about our cat friend, Magic, and at 12, Zoe has now published her first children's book. Magic. is now available in hard copy print (English only) and ebook (bilingual Chinese + English) on Amazon.
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“There is a Chinese superstition that those who commit suicide wearing red clothes will become powerful, vengeful ghosts. They will come back and seek retribution for the injury done to them when they were still alive.”
― Yu-Han Chao, Sex & Taipei City

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