5/9: Reading with Ching-In Chen, Laura Da' & Jami Macarty

Ching-In Chen is author of Shiny City, recombinant (2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry) and The Heart's Traffic: a novel in poems as well as chapbooks to make black paper sing and Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters (Leslie Scalapino Finalist). Chen is co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities. They are a Kelsey Street Press collective member, Airlie Press editor and Nonfiction Coordinator for Best of the Net. They received fellowships from Lambda, Watering Hole, Can Serrat, Imagining America, Jack Straw Cultural Center, EmergeNYC, Intercultural Leadership Institute and the Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship as well as the Judith A. Markowitz Award for Exceptional New LGBTQ Writers. They collaborate on Breathing in a Time of Disaster, a performance, installation and speculative writing project exploring breath through meditation and environmental justice.

Laura Da’ is a poet and teacher who studied at the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is the author of Tributaries, American Book Award winner, Instruments of the True Measure, Washington State Book Award winner, and Severalty. Da’ is Eastern Shawnee and she lives in Washington with her family.

Jami Macarty is the author of the 2025 collection, The Long Now Conditions Permit, which offers an ecofeminist ethic of care as an antidote to extractive capitalism and patriarchal norms. Macarty’s previous collections include, The Minuses, winner of the 2020 New Mexico Arizona Book Award-Poetry Arizona, and four chapbooks, including The Whole Catastrophe, finalist for the 2025 bpNichol Chapbook Award, and Mind Of Spring, winner of the 2017 Vallum Chapbook Award. Macarty supports writers as an independent mentor, editor, and reviewer, and as a creative writing teacher at Simon Fraser University. Macarty lives in and learns from the arborescent desert around Tucson, Arizona, and the rain coast of Vancouver, British Columbia.

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