Presented as part of CCA’s HearSay Reading Series
Justin Chin was born in Malaysia, raised and educated in Singapore, came to the United States by way of Hawaii, and is now living in San Francisco. He is the author of three books of poetry, all published by Manic D Press: Bite Hard, Harmless Medicine (a finalist in the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Awards), and Gutted (recipient of the 2007 Publishing Triangle Thom Gunn Award for Poetry). Squeezed in between these were two nonfiction books: Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes & Pranks and what he calls his ur-memoir, Burden of Ashes.
In the 1990s Chin led a double life as performance artist, and he continues to produce text/visual book-based performance work. Book 2 is an ongoing project in which he remakes, remodels, and reworks discarded and abandoned books.
CCA Oakland campus, 5212 Broadway, Nahl Hall
