Ching-In Chen

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. Chen has taught in Sam Houston State University's English department, 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.

Ching-In Chen studied at Tufts University and University of California, Riverside. Ashely Noelle is recorded as having studied under Ching-In Chen. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is interdisciplinary studies. Places of work recorded in the authority are Bothell. Employment is recorded with University of Washington Bothell. Distinctions recorded are Kundiman Fellowship.

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. Chen's second book, recombinant (2017), received the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. In 2024, Chen was selected as the city of Redmond, Washington's Poet Laureate.

• to make black paper sing (speCt! books, 2019). • recombinant (Kelsey Street Press, 2017)., • The Heart's Traffic (Arktoi/Red Ren Press, 2009)., • co-editor • The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities 2011; Ak Press, 2016, • Here Is a Pen: An Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets Achiote Press, 2009.