Ching-In Chen's Books
Feb.15.2009
The Heart's Traffic, Ching-In's debut collection of poems, is a novel-in-poems chronicling the life of Xiaomei, an immigrant girl haunted by the death of her best friend. Told through a kaleidoscopic braid of stories, letters, and riddles, this stunning debut collection follows Xiaomei's life as she grows into her sexuality and searches for a way to deal with her complicated...
About Ching-In
Ching-In Chen is the author of The Heart's Traffic, a novel in poems chronicling the life of an immigrant girl haunted by the death of her best friend (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press). Daughter of Chinese immigrants and a Kundiman Asian American Poet Fellow,...
Causes Ching-In Chen Supports
Kundiman, www.kundiman.org
Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation,...
Ching-In’s Favorite Books
Dance Dance Revolution, Love/Conjure Blues, Woman Warrior, Matadora, Dien Cau Dau, Dictee, Cultural Evidence, Names Above Houses, Salt Fish Girl, One Hundred...