Ching-In Chen

Ching-In Chen is a genderqueer Chinese American poet and multi-genre writer.

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

They are the author of recombinant, The Heart's Traffic, 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.

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.