Ching-In Chen is the author of The Heart's Traffic (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press) and recombinant (forthcoming from Kelsey Street Press) as well as co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home:
Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities (South End Press, AK Press). A Kundiman, Lambda, Callaloo, and The Watering Hole Fellow, they are part of the Macondo and Voices of Our
Nations Arts Foundation writing communities. They have also been awarded fellowships from Can
Serrat, Millay Colony for the Arts, the Norman Mailer Center, and Imagining America. Their work has appeared in The Best American Experimental Writing, The &NOW Awards 3: The Best Innovative
Writing, and Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics. They are a senior editor of
The Conversant and Poetry Editor of Texas Review. They currently teach creative writing and world literature at Sam Houston State University and can be found at www.chinginchen.com.