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Rita Zoey Chin

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Queens, NY, The United States

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Rita Zoey Chin is the author of the widely praised memoir, Let the Tornado Come. Hailed by The Huffington Post as a “euphoric ode to the human spirt” and by Oprah.com as a “powerful story to pass onto a friend,” Let the Tornado Come was named a Boston Globe “Summer Reads” pick, one of Kirkus Reviews’ “10 True Stories Perfect for Summer Reading,” an Elle Readers Prize pick, and one of Flavorwire’s “10 Nonfiction Books That Will Make You Smarter.”

Zoey holds an MFA from the University of Maryland, has taught at Towson University, and currently teaches at Grub Street in Boston, as well as at retreats and conferences near and far. Some of her other writing can be found in Guernica, Tin House, Blackbird Review, NY Arts Magazine, Marie Claire, and ...more

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“If only we could always say our truths--if we could name the things that haunt us--maybe they could float up from us like the kind of helium that the birds would sip in the treetops. Then they would make us laugh and laugh.”
― Rita Zoey Chin

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“It seems to me that so much unhappiness in life comes not from a lack of answers, but from a lack of knowing the right questions to ask.”
― Rita Zoey Chin, Let the Tornado Come: A Memoir

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“Safety is largely an illusion, and panic knows this.”
― Rita Zoey Chin, Let the Tornado Come: A Memoir

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