K-Ming Chang books

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K-Ming Chang is a Taiwanese American author born in 1998 who grew up in California. She writes fiction that blurs the line between myth and reality, often drawing on Chinese and Taiwanese folklore, family memory, and the body itself as a site of transformation. Her debut novel Bestiary, published in 2020, tells the story of three generations of women who move from Taiwan to Arkansas, where a folktale about a tiger spirit begins to change the youngest daughter physically.

Chang followed Bestiary with the short story collection Gods of Want in 2022, which won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and was named a New York Times Notable Book. Organ Meats arrived in 2023, a novel about two best friends whose encounter with stray dogs triggers strange desires to shed their human selves. Cecilia, a surreal novella published by Coffee House Press in 2024, rounds out her longer fiction. Chang has described Bestiary, Gods of Want, and Organ Meats as a “mythic triptych.” She has also contributed to the horror anthology Death in the Mouth and the multi-author collection Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women.