Ching-In Chen is the author of The Heart's Traffic (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press 2009) and a multi-genre, border-crossing writer. The daughter of Chinese immigrants, she is a Kundiman and Lambda Fellow. A community organizer, she has worked in the Asian American communities of San Francisco, Oakland, and Boston. Her work has been recently published in Fifth Wednesday Journal, OCHO, Water~Stone Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, Rio Grande Review, Cha, Verdad and the anthology Yellow as Turmeric, Fragrant as Cloves. Ching-In has also been awarded residencies and fellowships from the Voices of Our Nations Foundation, Soul Mountain Retreat, Vermont Studio Center, and the Paden Institute. She is currently in the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of California at Riverside.