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I’m a writer from Hong Kong, and the author of The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir (Random House).
My work explores girlhood, psychogeography, and political trauma. My essays, reported features, and cultural criticism have been published in the New York Times, Foreign Policy, New York Magazine, This American Life, New Statesman, The Rumpus, Evergreen Review, and elsewhere. My writing has also appeared in the anthologies Making Space: A Collection of Writing and Art (2023), Writing in Difficult Times: A Bilingual Essay Anthology (2021), and Aftershock: Essays from Hong Kong (2020). I co-run the literary journal Cicada, which is open to submissions all year round.
I was previously co-founding editor of Still / Loud, a senior reporter at Hong Kong Free Press, and Associate Editor at Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong.
I am currently a part-time lecturer in creative writing at Hong Kong Baptist University. I’ve given guest lectures and workshops at Oxford University, the University of Hong Kong, and Hong Kong Shue Yan University. I was the visiting author at Åbo Akademi University in Finland in spring 2023.
I am represented by Clare Mao at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. You can sometimes find me on twitter @karenklcheung or on my substack, Shallow Eyes.
For work enquiries, email me at karenklcheung524 [at] gmail [dot] com.