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K-Ming Chang is a Kundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award winner, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and an O. Henry Prize winner. She is the author of Bestiary (One World/Random House, 2020), Bone House (Bull City Press, 2021), Gods of Want (One World, 2022), and Organ Meats (One World, 2023). Her books have been New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice selections, included on the New York Times Notable Books list, and considered for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. She can be found at kmingchang.com.
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Saturn Browne (SB): So just, first of all, thank you for accepting this interview. And also, congrats on your new novel. And also your I think Lambda. Was it a Lambda Award today?
K-Ming Chang (KMC): Yeah, I'm honored that you reached out to me, it means a lot to me and I'm excited.
SB: So the first question that I had was what events or people sparked the foundation of this book for you? And were you influenced by any other works?
KMC: So Cecilia, it's really interesting, because it sprung from a short story that I wrote, that was also titled "Cecilia", that was published in Hyphen magazine, which is a journal for Asian American writers.
What was interesting about the whole process is I was solicited to be part of the Coffee House Press NVLA series. So they reached out to me asking me if I was working on anything of novella length, and if I was, if I would be willing to submit something for consideration. So that's a very reversed process. I've never had a publisher reach out to me, and asked me for something I hadn't yet written. So I think I wrote back saying, like, oh, yeah, I'm totally working on something. But it was really exciting to think about being part of a novella series with Coffee House, especially because the form of...
Kim Fu is a Canadian-born writer living in Seattle, Washington. SHe is the author of For Today I Am a Boy which won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, as well as a New ... (more)
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