What Does It Mean to Be “Made” Somewhere?
In Italy, I learned to stop searching for an authentic, fixed self, or an automatic kinship with the Chinese diasporic community—especially in a globalized world.
Julie Chen's fiction and personal essays have been published in Hobart, The Margins, X-R-A-Y, and CHEAP POP. She also writes poetry, and makes music under the name Slime Queen. She is a Fulbright Fellow and a graduate of Princeton University.
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