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Cleo Qian
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writer | 🌈 | author of LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO (Tin House 2023)
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"My hatred lives on through my singing

Repelling hummingbirds, ladybugs, worms

My hatred has grown very tall

Its fingers all dangle with seeds"

“Vinegar Ceremony” by Cleo Qian (@cleoqian.bsky.social) from @honeyliterary.bsky.social

www.honeyliterary.com/issue-5-/poe...
Vinegar Ceremony after Mary Ruefle I bury my hatred in the graveyard I water my hatred with vinegar I fertilize my hatred with salt My hatred grows deep like a tuber I leave my hatred to dry Maybe my hatred will die My hatred still grows without water Its leaves still sprout without sun My hatred grows teeth like a shadow Its fruit is a hard metal bomb My hatred lives on through my singing Repelling hummingbirds, ladybugs, worms My hatred has grown very tall Its fingers all dangle with seeds I peek from the corner of my vision Will my hatred be forgotten if I kill it? I am afraid to pull it out by the root Vinegar Ceremony after Mary Ruefle I bury my hatred in the graveyard I water my hatred with vinegar I fertilize my hatred with salt My hatred grows deep like a tuber I leave my hatred to dry Maybe my hatred will die My hatred still grows without water Its leaves still sprout without sun My hatred grows teeth like a shadow Its fruit is a hard metal bomb My hatred lives on through my singing Repelling hummingbirds, ladybugs, worms My hatred has grown very tall Its fingers all dangle with seeds I peek from the corner of my vision Will my hatred be forgotten if I kill it? I am afraid to pull it out by the root About Cleo Qian Cleo Qian is a writer from southern California. Her work has been published in The Guardian, Shenandoah, Pleiades, AAWW's The Margins and elsewhere. Her first book, LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO, is forthcoming from TIn House in 2023.
December 16, 2024 at 8:25 PM
cleoqian.bsky.social
Teaching at Tin House this summer!
tinhouse.bsky.social Tin House @tinhouse.bsky.social · Jan 25
Catch a summer breeze this July with a few of your favorite authors. The deadline to apply to our 2024 Tin House Summer Workshop is January 31st.

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January 29, 2024 at 5:14 PM
cleoqian.bsky.social
wonder if there's a relationship between avant-garde aesthetics and radical politics. Why are all the most radical/visionary artists I know also the most leftist in their politics?
January 15, 2024 at 12:13 AM
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Love to be in this one!
zyzzyvamag.bsky.social ZYZZYVA @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social · Oct 26
Here it is: our gorgeous Issue No. 126. With writing by Adam Foulds, @jessicafkane.bsky.social and
@cleoqian.bsky.social; a conversation with National Book Award finalist Justin Torres; art by Wangari Mathenge; and much more. Pre-order here! www.zyzzyva.org/2023/10/26/o...
November 21, 2023 at 9:01 PM
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💐Congratulations @cleoqian.bsky.social !

Longlisted for the 🏆2024 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction!

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October 17, 2023 at 6:30 PM
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The poet Natalie Diaz lost her brother Mino to a car accident this last Monday and is fundraising to help his family. Please give if you can. gofund.me/d42e8c18
Support for Mino Diaz Family, organized by Natalie Diaz
My parents never thought they would have to lay their son, my brother, down into the earth.… Natalie Diaz needs your support for Support for Mino Diaz Family
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September 27, 2023 at 3:53 AM
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I talked on the I'm A Writer But podcast (episode here):

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Cleo Qian on the Differences Between Writing Poetry and Fiction
Welcome to I’m a Writer But, where writers discuss their work, their lives, their other work, the stuff that takes up any free time they have, all the stuff they’re not able to get to, …
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September 19, 2023 at 4:19 PM
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"As I wandered my own landscapes of alienation, loneliness & fear, the books I turned to showed me other girls who walked similar paths. Briefly, while reading them, I did feel less alone."

⚡ LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO's @cleoqian.bsky.social at Electric Lit

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9 Books about Women's Loneliness - Electric Literature
Cleo Qian, author of "Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go," recommends stories about the search for connection
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August 29, 2023 at 3:03 PM
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Two new poems in wildness! "Meditations on the Discovery of Green" and "Kitchen Study of Early Adulthood"

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Issue No. 31 | wildnesswildness
Wildness is an online literary and arts journal.
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August 28, 2023 at 7:05 PM
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Love these two smart takes from Cleaver Magazine on LET'S GO! Love being read by Asian girlies!

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Two Takes on LET’S GO LET’S GO LET’S GO, stories by Cleo Qian: Lillian Lowenthal and Audrey La...
One New Book, Two ReviewsLET’S GO LET’S GO LET’S GOby Cleo QianTin House Books, 246 pages Cleaver’s internship program offers the opportunity to review a new book from a small or indie press u...
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August 26, 2023 at 1:32 AM
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Thank you Chicago Review of Books for this thoughtful review of LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO!

https://chireviewofbooks.com/2023/08/21/lets-go-lets-go-lets-go/
The Embrace of the Literary Speculative Space in “Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go”
Our review of Cleo Qian’s debut story collection, “Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go.”
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August 21, 2023 at 2:16 PM
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I interviewed @cleoqian.bsky.social for Full Stop about her debut short story collection Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go (Tin House). https://www.full-stop.net/2023/08/15/interviews/dianar/cleo-qian/
Cleo Qian
There's so many queer Asian women, like so many. But you don’t see much of that in literature. But I think that more and more of us are writing and publishing now. It’s a game changer and it's jus...
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August 15, 2023 at 3:28 PM