Karissa Chen
Karissa Chen is the author of the novel Homeseeking, forthcoming in January 2025. She is a Fulbright fellow whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, Eater, The Cut, NBC News THINK!, PEN America, and Gulf Coast, among others. She was awarded an artist fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and was a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellow at Millay Arts. She currently resides in Taipei, Taiwan.
In the opening lines of Juliet Grames’s sophomore novel, The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia, the narrator, Francesca Loftfield, writes, “Growing up meant understanding who was at fault wasn’t what mattered; what mattered was who had to pay the consequences.”
In the early 1970s, a childless couple in Vermont adopts a baby chimp from a circus clown for $6,000 and begins raising him as their son.
