Doris W. Cheng
Doris W. Cheng is a Taiwanese American writer and editor. Her debut novel, Keep Your Enemies Close, is forthcoming from Deep Vellum in August 2027.
She is represented by Sarah Burnes at The Gernert Company.
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…”