Ching-In Chen

{{short description|Genderqueer Chinese American poet and multi-genre writer}}

Ching-In Chen is a genderqueer Chinese American poet and multi-genre writer.{{Cite web|url=https://www.otis.edu/calendar/visiting-writers-series-ching-chen|title=Visiting Writers Series: Ching-In Chen|website=Otis College of Art and Design|language=en|access-date=2019-08-04|archive-date=2019-08-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190804182241/https://www.otis.edu/calendar/visiting-writers-series-ching-chen|url-status=dead}}

They graduated from Tufts University, University of California, Riverside, and the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

They are the author of recombinant,{{cite web |title=National Poetry Month: "to become diagram" And "island where these things (seed)" By Ching-In Chen |url=https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/arts-culture/2017/04/12/195962/national-poetry-month-to-become-diagram-and-island-where-these-things-seed-by-ching-in-chen/ |website=Houston Public Media |date=12 April 2017 |publisher=University of Houston |accessdate=14 June 2018}} The Heart's Traffic,{{cite web |title=The Heart's Traffic by Ching-In Chen |url=http://smithsonianapa.org/bookdragon/the-hearts-traffic-by-ching-in-chen/ |website=BookDragon: Books for the Multi-Culti Reader |date=24 September 2009 |publisher=Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center}} 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.{{cite web |title=Ching-In Chen |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ching-in-chen |website=Poetry Foundation--Poets |publisher=Poetry Foundation |accessdate=14 June 2018}}

Chen has taught in Sam Houston State University's English department,{{Cite web|url=https://poets.org/poet/ching-chen|title=About Ching-In Chen {{!}} Academy of American Poets|last=Poets|first=Academy of American|website=poets.org|access-date=2019-08-04}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ching-in-chen|title=Ching-In Chen|date=2019-08-04|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en|access-date=2019-08-04}}{{Cite web|url=https://clamor-journal.com/ |title=Home Page |author=UWB Student Media |website=Clamor |access-date=February 24, 2021}}