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Michelle Chen

Michelle Chen is a writer and historian based in New York City, and co-hosts the podcasts Belabored and Asia Pacific Forum.

By Michelle Chen:
Moustafa Bayoumi on Politics and Protest in the Trump Era
Making and Unmaking the Asian American Movement
Digging a Hole to China
Rogue State: Jeff Biggers on the Arizonification of America
Good Fortune, Long Life
Fifty Years of Pearl River Mart

Recent Articles

  • Remembering Grandma
    Poetry
    By Miguel Barretto García

    It was not my choosing / to be my grandma’s living heirloom.

    The Colors Between White Lines
    Fiction
    By Mazzy Sleep

    She let go.

    Feeding the Koi
    Poetry
    By Rosanna Young Oh

    Fear had carried my life, / and I was still afraid.

    Old Stone
    Fiction
    By M Jesuthasan

    The way she speaks will make you certain that she is the only one still alive.

    A Q&A with Courtney Faye Taylor
    Interviews
    By Tiffany Diane Tso

    Relaunching the Black and Asian Feminist Solidarities column with a conversation with the author of Concentrate.

    Five Memorials for Latasha
    Essays
    By Courtney Faye Taylor

    In resistance, we are at the neck of injustice, holding our breath, proving our matter.

    When Asked
    Poetry
    By Rana Tahir

    The estimate comes down to six hundred missing,/ the estimate comes to a son flying off a bridge.

    good memory is not always good
    Poetry
    By Mansi Dahal

    i am re-writing / his life. no debts. no fights.

    Love Letters
    Fiction
    By The Asian American Writers’ Workshop

    A flash folio edited by Yi Wei

    Editor’s Note: Love Letters
    By Yi Wei

    The most important love we have will always be for ourselves and our lives. It is only from this lodestar, our own definition and practice of love, that we can turn love back out into the world and towards our people.

    About the Art: Love Letters
    Interviews
    By Yi Wei

    So much of art is speaking, but art can only be made by listening to the world around us, forming our own distinctive definitions of that world in tandem with what we learn and who we choose to look for.

    I Thought Love Was a Country
    Poetry
    By Abigail Mengesha

    This was the way of a country.

    After,word
    Poetry
    By George Abraham

    I need memory to be boundless, then. More infinite than.

    (Mis)translation
    Fiction
    By Jihyun Yun

    Our sonorous, sorrowful Korean.

    Two Stories by Murzban F. Shroff
    Fiction
    By Murzban F. Shroff

    “A Beautiful Relationship” and “The Price of Freedom”

    The Effect of Time on Collective Consciousness
    Fiction
    By Nathan Xie

    We’d video-game or anime-binge or dream aloud about a future as bright as our childhoods.

    Jeannie
    Fiction
    By Qianze Zhang

    This is my friend, the K-pop star.

    You Just Told Your Mother You Don’t Want Children
    Fiction
    By Saba Keramati

    How many times she must have labored to make you stop crying, and how many times she held you, acknowledging your pain as you cried.

    Possession
    Fiction
    By Nina Dewi

    Haunting a house isn’t as easy as you might think.

    Summer Storm / Winter Storm
    Fiction
    By Sanna Wani

    I’ve been reading up on comfort and chaos. I like missing you.

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