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K-Ming Chang

K-Ming Chang is a Kundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award winner, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and an O. Henry Prize winner. She is the author of the New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice novel Bestiary (One World/Random House, 2020), longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. In 2021, her chapbook Bone House was published by Bull City Press. Her most recent books are a collection of stories, Gods of Want (One World/Random House, 2022), a New York Times Notable Book of 2022, and a novel, Organ Meats (One World/Random House, 2023).  Chang’s forthcoming novella, Cecilia, will be published by Coffee House Press in 2024.

Fiction

Winter 2024

The Tornado

By K-Ming Chang

We first hear about the tornado from Chiu Ayi, who comes by our house with a bag of frozen dough so heavy it must be a descendant of the meteor […]