K-Ming Chang
K-Ming Chang is a Kundiman Fellow, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice novel Bestiary (One World/Random House, 2020), which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2021, her chapbook Bone House was published by Bull City Press. Her short story collection, Gods of Want, is forthcoming from One World, as well as a novel titled Organ Meats.
Reading List
Gamblers
Since I was five, I have not been allowed to count. I had to learn numbers from the TV guide, memorizing digits based on what their combinations unlocked: the boxing matches my brothers bet their beards on, the weather channel that predicted what year it would rain (my Agong betting on the clouds that swelled […]
Lizard Luck
When we were ten, Mandy Lin claimed she’d given half a hand job to our neighbor Steven, a boy with a cleft lip he liked to lick, flicking bullets of spit at us. What’s half a hand job? I asked. Do you have half a hand? And she said no, she’d just done it over […]