Doris W. Cheng
Doris W. Cheng is an immigrant Taiwanese American writer. She is the author of a fiction chapbook Earthling (Word West Press, 2021), and her short stories and essays appear in New Orleans Review, Witness, Berkeley Fiction Review, the Normal School, the Cincinnati Review, and other literary magazines. She received an MA in English literature from Columbia University and is an alumna of Bread Loaf Writers Conference and Tin House Workshops.
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Still the Water
When there are only two Asians, instead of uniting, one may try to take the other out so that the meager power meted out to minorities will not be shared; so that one will not be mistaken as like the other. —Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings Chapter 1 July 1974 […]
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The Water Meets the Sky: On How a Story Takes Shape
Doris W. Cheng explores the connections between politics, love, and invisibility as the first chapters of her novel take shape.