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Fay Chiang Poet United States of America
Fay Chiang has been a writer, visual artist, community and cultural activist in NYC Chinatown and the Lower East Side for the past 42 years. She studied Art at Hunter College. She was the executive director of Basement Workshop, the first Asian American nonprofit organization in NYC for 12 years, director of the Henry Street Settlement’s Asian American Outreach program, project manager and special sections editor at NY Newsday, director of Poets & Writers’ Readings/Workshops state-wide grant program and currently works with at risk youth and people living with HIV/AIDS at Project Reach. Author of 3 volumes of poetry: 7 Continents 9 Lives, The City of Contradictions and Miwa’s Song, her work has been published in numerous poetry and literary magazines nationally and internationally. She was a recipient of a NY State CAPS poetry grant, a Revson Fellowship at Columbia University, and was writer in residence in the Asian/Pacific Islander Studies department at NYU, Plays for Living, Art in General and Dramatic Risks. A volunteer for Zero Capital, freeDimensional, Orchard Street Arts and Advocacy, October 22nd Coalition Against Police Brutality, and a board member for Dramatic Risks, Fay lives in the East Village and is the mother of the inimitable Xian.
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