About
Qing Qing Chen was born in Tianjin, China, and moved to northeast Ohio at age ten. In her twenties, she left NYC for Beijing, living there for 14 years before returning to New York. Her fiction is forthcoming in The Pinch and has appeared in Prime Number Magazine. She has received Honorable Mentions for the 2026 Pinch Literary Awards, judged by Kirstin Chen, and the Third Coast Fiction Contest, judged by Dustin M. Hoffman, been longlisted for the 2025 Ploughshares Emerging Writers' Contest, and received an Honorable Mention for the 2023 CRAFT Short Fiction Prize. She lives in New York with her husband and two sons.
Writing
“Cat People,” Prime Number Magazine, 2024
“Silk,” The Pinch, forthcoming, Fall 2026
"Silk" takes a seemingly mundane situation—a woman on a disastrous vacation shopping for souvenirs—and flips it on its head..." subverting expectation "in the best possible ways, making us view once familiar worlds anew." — Kirstin Chen
“The prose’s style is stunning—the decadent details of tourist trappings and consumerism captured in the daringly intimate psychic distance. That closeness allows us to travel through this cluttered setting on this day right along with the main character on her flâneuse adventure. The story leaves us in delicious ambiguity when the narrator is confronted with the awareness of being fooled. But we and she also get to luxuriate, to wear silk, without being told our attention is misplaced.” — Dustin M. Hoffman