Author: K-Ming Chang
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The Writer as Vulture and Visitor – An Interview with K-Ming Chang About NEEDLEMOUTH
The best way I can describe reading K-Ming Chang’s work is as being poured upon by language. I was thinking about this as I read her latest novel, Needlemouth, out October 20th from Simon & Schuster. In the past, I’ve dove into Chang’s writing wanting to digest it, word by word—to understand everything. In contrast,…
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INTERVIEW WITH K-Ming Chang
I first read K-Ming Chang’s writing in 2018, back when I was Fiction Editor of Nashville Review. Her story, “Meals for Mourners/兄弟”, captured my attention with its embodied, elemental language and stirring portrait of family life. Since that time, Chang has written a novel, a chapbook, and a story collection, among other projects. Currently, she…
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EXCERPT FROM THE HISTORY OF LITERACY by K-Ming Chang
Smaller Uncle claimed he could predict a flood was coming when all his nose-hairs swooned and sprinkled the sink. A long time ago, before he washed cars, he used to be a weatherman, which I thought meant he could manufacture weather, plucking out strands of his own hair to double as lightning, the way the…