K-Ming Chang

K-Ming Chang is a Taiwanese American author who won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction in 2023 for the story collection Gods of Want. She is also the author of the debut novel Bestiary (2020), which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Chang's fiction blends myth, queerness, and the Taiwanese-American immigrant experience with surrealist intensity and lyrical precision. Gods of Want is a collection of stories exploring desire, myth, family, and the body through a distinctively queer and Taiwanese lens. She is widely regarded as one of the most exciting new voices in American literary fiction. She holds an MFA from New York University.