Doris W. Cheng
Doris W. Cheng is a Taiwanese American writer and editor. She is the author of a fiction chapbook, Earthling (Word West Press, 2021), and her stories, essays, and interviews appear in Boston Review, Shenandoah, Chicago Review of Books, Witness, The Southampton Review, and other literary magazines.
Selected Work
Boston Review, “Keep Your Enemies Close”
“She was a mythic creature: mysteriously disappearing in my infancy, glimpsed in blurry snapshots posing in front of American tourist attractions, and then, the day after my sixth birthday, materializing outside the gateway…”
Shenandoah, "The Water Meets the Sky"
“The way the water meets the sky on the outer length of Cape Cod is a Hopper painting come to life. The arc of the horizon—the purity of blue—reminds me that we are all made of light. It’s one of my favorite places.”
Witness, “The Choice, 1988”
“You thought college would be the answer. To your awkwardness, your embarrassing erudition, your virginity. You imagined yourself a co-ed like the ones you saw on the pages of Seventeen magazine…”