Ching-In Chen is the author of The Heart’s Traffic and recombinant, which won the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry. Chen is also the co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence within Activist Communities and Here Is a Pen: An Anthology of West Coast Kundiman Poets. A poetry editor for the Texas Review, they have taught creative writing at Sam Houston State University and attended Jade Buddha Temple in Houston.