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Lisa Chen

Lisa Chen is the author of Mouth (Kaya Press) and was 2015-2016 Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction. She has work forthcoming in StoryQuarterly and is working on book about the performance artist Tehching Hsieh, duration, and the life of projects. She was born in Taiwan and lives in Brooklyn.

Mar/Apr 2017

Uzumasa Limelight

By Lisa Chen

Village East Cinema: the twilight show of Uzumasa Limelight. I lean into the swinging door of Theater 3. The room swooshes open, empty as a toothless mouth. I am inside […]