Ching-In Chen is a genderqueer Chinese American poet and multi-genre writer.
They presently serve as the staff advisor for Clamor, the Bothell campus's literary magazine, alongside Amaranth Borsuk.
[6][7] Chen's first book, The Heart's Traffic (2009), is a "novel-in-poems" that employs multiple poetic forms, including the sestina, villanelle, haibun, and pantoum.
The book focuses on the experiences of Xiaomei, a young immigrant from China to the United States.
[8] Chen's second book, recombinant (2017), received the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry.