Ching-In Chen

Ching-In Chen is a genderqueer Chinese American poet and multi-genre writer.[1]

Ching-In Chen
BornBinghamton 
Alma mater
OccupationPoet 
Employer
Awards
  • Kundiman fellow 
Websitehttps://www.chinginchen.com/ 

They graduated from Tufts University, University of California, Riverside, and the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. They are the author of recombinant,[2] The Heart's Traffic,[3] 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.[4]

Chen has taught at Sam Houston State University[5] and currently teaches courses in the Interdisciplinary Arts department at the University of Washington Bothell campus, where they serve as the staff advisor for Clamor, the campus literary magazine, alongside Amaranth Borsuk.[6][7]

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.[8]

Chen's second book, recombinant (2017), received the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry.[9]

Works
  • 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 2011; Ak Press, 2016, ISBN 9781849352628, OCLC 1023351920
  • Here Is a Pen: An Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets Achiote Press, 2009. OCLC 775595869

References
  1. "Visiting Writers Series: Ching-In Chen". Otis College of Art and Design. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  2. "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.
  3. "The Heart's Traffic by Ching-In Chen". BookDragon: Books for the Multi-Culti Reader. Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center.
  4. "Ching-In Chen". Poetry Foundation--Poets. Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 14 June 2018.
  5. Poets, Academy of American. "About Ching-In Chen | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  6. Foundation, Poetry (2019-08-04). "Ching-In Chen". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  7. https://clamor-journal.com/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. Supriya, Author. "Review: Ching-In Chen's THE HEART'S TRAFFIC – Lantern Review Blog". Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  9. "30th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced".


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