Ching-In Chen is author of Shiny City, recombinant (2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry) and The Heart’s Traffic: a novel in poems as well as chapbooks to make black paper sing and Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters. Chen is co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities. They are a Kelsey Street Press and Airlie Press editor and serve as Best of the Net’s Nonfiction Coordinator, on Cultural Space Agency’s Governing Council and Seattle City of Literature’s board. They received fellowships from Kundiman, Lambda, Watering Hole, Imagining America, Jack Straw, EmergeNYC, Intercultural Leadership Institute and Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship as well as Judith A. Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers. They collaborate on Breathing in a Time of Disaster, a performance, installation and speculative project exploring breath through meditation and environmental justice. They teach at University of Washington Bothell.
