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Wah-Ming Chang

Wah-Ming Chang is a writer and bookmaker based in Brooklyn. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from Ucross Foundation, Art Omi, and the Saltonstall Foundation, and has received support three times from the New York Foundation for the Arts for her fiction. Her writing has appeared in Joyland, The Brooklyn Rail, and Works & Days, among other publications. Hand, Held, Chang’s artist book about her father’s art practice, is forthcoming from Bored Wolves (2025). An iteration of Hand, Held was on view in the 39 Footnotes group exhibition at Accent Sisters (New York, 2025). Eclipse, excerpted here, is her work in progress.

Cinema

Spring 2025

from Eclipse

By Wah-Ming Chang

The Kenyon Review · from “Eclipse” by Wah-Ming Chang I. My father lives on the top floor of a former movie theater that sits underneath the Manhattan Bridge. Today the […]