Ching-In Chen
Ching-In Chen is a genderqueer Chinese American poet and multi-genre writer.
They graduated from Tufts University, 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 are a Callaloo, Kundiman, and Lambda Fellow.
Chen has taught at Sam Houston State University and currently teaches English literature and creative writing courses at the University of Washington, Bothell.Career
Chen's first book, The Heart's Traffic , 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, received the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry.Works
- to make black paper sing.
- recombinant.,
- The Heart's Traffic.,
;co-editor
- The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities 2011; Ak Press, 2016,,
- Here Is a Pen: An Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets Achiote Press, 2009.
