Nicholas Christopher is fond of globe-trotting, coming-of-age characters. Young men search for their fathers in the beguiling, episodic “Franklin Flyer” (2002) and the planet-roaming “A Trip to the ...
When author K-Ming Chang was in sixth grade, she wrote a story inspired by the Chinese myths she had heard as a child. The main character in her story had the ability to turn into a tiger. “It was ...
“You’re my mother,” Daughter says in K-Ming Chang’s “Bestiary,” “and you’re supposed to prepare me for any future.” “But who,” Mother replies, “can prepare you for the past?” K-Ming Chang’s debut ...
In this genre-transcending work, selected by Wayne Koestenbaum as the winner of the 2015 Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s Essay Collection, Hoang (Unfinished) relentlessly teases apart ...