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Behind the Words: Michael Chin
Posted by editors on Jan 18, 2022 in Uncategorized | Comments Off on Behind the Words: Michael Chin
Michael Chin has had work in various publications, including The Normal School, Passages North, Barrelhouse, Hobart, Iron Horse Literary Review, Front Porch Journal, Bellevue Literary Review, Prairie Schooner online, Waccamaw, and Word Riot. He has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize Best New Poets, Best Microfiction, and Best of the Net honors and had work on the Longlist for Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Fictions (2017). His debut novel, My Grandfather’s an Immigrant, and So is Yours came out from Cowboy Jamboree Press in 2021. Here, we discuss his Issue 10 story, “Contortions.” What I love about this story is the relationship between the two sisters,...
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