Fay Chiang (January 27, 1952 – October 20, 2017) was an American poet, writer,[1] visual artist and activist based in New York City[2] who was an advocate for introducing Chinese culture to American society.[3]
Chiang was the director of the Chinatown-based Asian American arts organization, Basement Workshop, in New York City from 1975 to 1986.[6] Later, Chiang was active at the Henry Street Settlement in the Lower East Side, Project Reach, a program working with youth in New York City's Chinatown, and Poets and Writers.[5] She was also involved in student-led protests advocating for better Asian American Studies courses at New York colleges.[5]
Chiang's books of poetry include In The City of Contradictions,Miwa's Song, and 7 Continents, 9 Lives, published by Bowery Press.[7][8] Her poetry focused on her identity as a Chinese-American, and explored the discrimination she faced through a lens of intersectionality.[9]
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^Ling, Amy, bibliography, "Asian American Literature," in Redefining American Literary History, A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward, eds., MLA, 1990.
^Ault, Julie. Alternative Art: New York 1965-1985: A Cultural Politics Book for the Social Text Collective; [catalog of a 1996 Exhibition Entitled: "cultural Economies: Histories from the Alternative Arts Movement, Nyc" Held at the Drawing Center, New York]. New York: Drawing Center, 2002. Print. p. 31.
