Ching-In Chen

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

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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 TheRevolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within ActivistCommunities and Here Is a Pen: An Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets. They are a Callaloo, Kundiman, and Lambda Fellow. [4]

Chen has taught in Sam Houston State University's English department, [5] and currently teaches in the English and creative writing programs at the University of Washington Bothell. They presently serve as the staff advisor for Clamor, the Bothell campus's 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]

In 2024, Chen was selected as the city of Redmond, Washington's Poet Laureate. [10]

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References

  1. "Visiting Writers Series: Ching-In Chen". Otis College of Art and Design. Archived from the original on 2019-08-04. 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. 12 April 2017. 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. 24 September 2009.
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  5. Poets, Academy of American. "About Ching-In Chen | Academy of American Poets". poets.org. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
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  7. UWB Student Media. "Home Page". Clamor. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
  8. "Review: Ching-In Chen's THE HEART'S TRAFFIC – Lantern Review Blog". November 9, 2009. Retrieved 2019-08-04.
  9. "30th Annual Lambda Literary Award Winners Announced". 5 June 2018.
  10. "Redmond Appoints Ching-In Chen as New Poet Laureate". 4 January 2024. Retrieved 2024-03-26.