Alexandra Chan Author
@alexkachan.bsky.social
Archaeologist (Ph.D.), artist, & award-winning author of In the Garden Behind the Moon: A Memoir of Loss, Myth, and Magic. American Book Fest’s Best Book of the Year in Multicultural Nonfiction (2024).
My IPPY Gold Medal arrived & it’s a CHONKY boi! 😅 So glad I pushed through the fear that “there’s no market for memoir.” In the Garden Behind the Moon is for the thinkers AND the seekers, &those who wake up, mid-apocalŷpse, as I did, surprised to find...they might just be both? 👀 🌀 a.co/d/271zPgx
August 11, 2025 at 6:13 PM
My IPPY Gold Medal arrived & it’s a CHONKY boi! 😅 So glad I pushed through the fear that “there’s no market for memoir.” In the Garden Behind the Moon is for the thinkers AND the seekers, &those who wake up, mid-apocalŷpse, as I did, surprised to find...they might just be both? 👀 🌀 a.co/d/271zPgx
Fantastic opportunity to read In the Garden Behind the Moon IMMERSIVELY! 75% off now thru 9/5. why immersively read this one?☝🏽 Well, the narration is terrific but the visuals are also key. www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
August 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Fantastic opportunity to read In the Garden Behind the Moon IMMERSIVELY! 75% off now thru 9/5. why immersively read this one?☝🏽 Well, the narration is terrific but the visuals are also key. www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
The summer send of ✨ The Glimmering ✨ is going out tomorrow. Glimmers are the opposite of triggers and can light the way home. Join the conversation below! Or follow me on Substack (all back issues of The Glimmering are also on Substack. Hope to see you there friends!
www.alexandrachan.com/start
www.alexandrachan.com/start
July 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The summer send of ✨ The Glimmering ✨ is going out tomorrow. Glimmers are the opposite of triggers and can light the way home. Join the conversation below! Or follow me on Substack (all back issues of The Glimmering are also on Substack. Hope to see you there friends!
www.alexandrachan.com/start
www.alexandrachan.com/start
Summer Send of The Glimmering is coming this weekend. A little less news, a little more letter 🥰. Sign up here: www.alexandrachan.com/start
July 16, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Summer Send of The Glimmering is coming this weekend. A little less news, a little more letter 🥰. Sign up here: www.alexandrachan.com/start
My PBS “talking head” debut is airing on select PBS stations across the country this month, but is available streaming from the link below thru 8/1! 😍🤓 It’s beautifully done. My book Slavery in the Age of Reason at 🔗 in bio. Happy watching/reading! Save our public media! www.pbs.org/show/concord...
July 8, 2025 at 6:47 PM
My PBS “talking head” debut is airing on select PBS stations across the country this month, but is available streaming from the link below thru 8/1! 😍🤓 It’s beautifully done. My book Slavery in the Age of Reason at 🔗 in bio. Happy watching/reading! Save our public media! www.pbs.org/show/concord...
Looking for memoir lovers, magic seekers, and perennial askers of why. Or when appropriate, why not? In the Garden Behind the Moon: A Memoir of Loss, Myth, and Magic has been loved by critics and readers alike. So what about it? The world is hard. So is life. Are you ready to believe in magic again?
July 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Looking for memoir lovers, magic seekers, and perennial askers of why. Or when appropriate, why not? In the Garden Behind the Moon: A Memoir of Loss, Myth, and Magic has been loved by critics and readers alike. So what about it? The world is hard. So is life. Are you ready to believe in magic again?
In the Garden Behind the Moon is now a multi-award-winning book! 🙂 American Book Fest’s Best Book of the Year (2024) in Multicultural Nonfiction (also a finalist in 3 other categories—parenting & family, self help, & spirituality); & an IPPY Gold Medalist (2025) in Aging/Death & Dying. I’m so happy.
July 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
In the Garden Behind the Moon is now a multi-award-winning book! 🙂 American Book Fest’s Best Book of the Year (2024) in Multicultural Nonfiction (also a finalist in 3 other categories—parenting & family, self help, & spirituality); & an IPPY Gold Medalist (2025) in Aging/Death & Dying. I’m so happy.
Books that made me want to give up writing b/c why even bother. 😅 No, I’ve never actually considered giving up writing. I was exaggerating for attention. 🙃 These are just books that make it feel more urgent than ever to think, speak, &write more beautifully in the world. Have y read any of these? 😍
June 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Books that made me want to give up writing b/c why even bother. 😅 No, I’ve never actually considered giving up writing. I was exaggerating for attention. 🙃 These are just books that make it feel more urgent than ever to think, speak, &write more beautifully in the world. Have y read any of these? 😍
It feels a little funny to say “I won!!” about death and dying 😅. But well, death is a part of life, &the one thing we can all be sure we have in common, isn’t it? The real win is knowing people everywhere are speaking the names of beloved old ones, while starting to heal themselves along the way. 😌
May 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
It feels a little funny to say “I won!!” about death and dying 😅. But well, death is a part of life, &the one thing we can all be sure we have in common, isn’t it? The real win is knowing people everywhere are speaking the names of beloved old ones, while starting to heal themselves along the way. 😌
Loved this modern, urban, Latino fantasy retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, coming out June 7, by @carablaine.author! Snappy dialogue; gritty, urban crime-thriller vibes; with a wolf-shifter romance and various kinds of magic, overt and latent, made this a page turner for me.
May 15, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Loved this modern, urban, Latino fantasy retelling of Little Red Riding Hood, coming out June 7, by @carablaine.author! Snappy dialogue; gritty, urban crime-thriller vibes; with a wolf-shifter romance and various kinds of magic, overt and latent, made this a page turner for me.
Who here is into immersive reading? Never done it myself but people describing it are making me kind of jelly and like I ought to try it. Well, now is your chance to immersively read In the Garden Behind the Moon because now through June 3, the audiobook is hãlf ôff. Link in bio and enjoy! #booksky
May 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Who here is into immersive reading? Never done it myself but people describing it are making me kind of jelly and like I ought to try it. Well, now is your chance to immersively read In the Garden Behind the Moon because now through June 3, the audiobook is hãlf ôff. Link in bio and enjoy! #booksky
Went to see my new tea roses after the rain and I’m not sorry about it. 😍🤩 #gardening
May 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Went to see my new tea roses after the rain and I’m not sorry about it. 😍🤩 #gardening
Stories are the bridge. 🤷🏻♀️ Stay curious, friends, and you’ll always be all right. That’s what my dad used to say. I think In the Garden Behind the Moon will leave you enlightened, delighted, and…changed? 👀 #aapiheritagemonth #aanhpi
May 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Stories are the bridge. 🤷🏻♀️ Stay curious, friends, and you’ll always be all right. That’s what my dad used to say. I think In the Garden Behind the Moon will leave you enlightened, delighted, and…changed? 👀 #aapiheritagemonth #aanhpi
I realized I list myself as an artist in my profile but I’ve never once posted about my art! I do Chinese brush painting but I only came to it after my folks died. Reconnecting with this ancestral cultural activity was a huge part of my healing & many of them now illustrate my book in full color! 🥰
May 2, 2025 at 1:53 AM
I realized I list myself as an artist in my profile but I’ve never once posted about my art! I do Chinese brush painting but I only came to it after my folks died. Reconnecting with this ancestral cultural activity was a huge part of my healing & many of them now illustrate my book in full color! 🥰
I am obsessed with the movie Sinners, not just for its supreme ART, but b/c I had no idea I would see my own deep southern Chinese & sharecropping ancestors on a screen together! 🤯 I wrote an award-winning book about some of that. Although there are no vampires in this story, there ARE ghosts! Enjoy
April 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I am obsessed with the movie Sinners, not just for its supreme ART, but b/c I had no idea I would see my own deep southern Chinese & sharecropping ancestors on a screen together! 🤯 I wrote an award-winning book about some of that. Although there are no vampires in this story, there ARE ghosts! Enjoy
Just got this beauty in the mail from @carablaine.author. Token of a Wolf is giving urban fantasy wolf-shifter romance, crime-stopping vibes and though I’ve only just cracked it open, it’s got a great opening and snappy writing that has sucked me right in. Really looking forward to this! 😍
April 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Just got this beauty in the mail from @carablaine.author. Token of a Wolf is giving urban fantasy wolf-shifter romance, crime-stopping vibes and though I’ve only just cracked it open, it’s got a great opening and snappy writing that has sucked me right in. Really looking forward to this! 😍
Tomorrow is April 19, the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolution. Reasons we went to war against England? Here are some below #ResistFascism #NoKings.
April 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Tomorrow is April 19, the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the American Revolution. Reasons we went to war against England? Here are some below #ResistFascism #NoKings.
Coming to PBS in July! A documentary on Hidden Boston (pics from our 2 days of filming, at the Mass State Archives—where I am composing myself in the can 😅— and at the Royall House & Slave Quarters, which is the archaeological site I based my book, Slavery in the Age of Reason, on). #authorsky
April 17, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Coming to PBS in July! A documentary on Hidden Boston (pics from our 2 days of filming, at the Mass State Archives—where I am composing myself in the can 😅— and at the Royall House & Slave Quarters, which is the archaeological site I based my book, Slavery in the Age of Reason, on). #authorsky
NYC peeps, I’ll be at Jake’s Dilemma on Tuesday night, 7:30, for a great night of nonfiction with five other incredible memoirists. Hosted by the fine folks at @mustlovememoir Visit their page for the full April lineup.
Hope to see you there!
#Booksky
Hope to see you there!
#Booksky
April 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
NYC peeps, I’ll be at Jake’s Dilemma on Tuesday night, 7:30, for a great night of nonfiction with five other incredible memoirists. Hosted by the fine folks at @mustlovememoir Visit their page for the full April lineup.
Hope to see you there!
#Booksky
Hope to see you there!
#Booksky
Exeter LitFest & National Book Award winner, Dr. Tiya Miles, who says she teaches my first book, Slavery in the Age of Reason: Archaeology at a New England Farm, every year! 🤩 I picked up her own most recent Night Flyer, about Harriet Tubman & her special relationship to nature and the environment.
April 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Exeter LitFest & National Book Award winner, Dr. Tiya Miles, who says she teaches my first book, Slavery in the Age of Reason: Archaeology at a New England Farm, every year! 🤩 I picked up her own most recent Night Flyer, about Harriet Tubman & her special relationship to nature and the environment.
Bad news but I am undeterred. My ancestors are my crucible and my guides. Protect our libraries and museums. Teach real history. #ITooAmAmerica #history #smithsonian
March 30, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Bad news but I am undeterred. My ancestors are my crucible and my guides. Protect our libraries and museums. Teach real history. #ITooAmAmerica #history #smithsonian
This is the material point.
March 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This is the material point.
NH and ME peeps! I’ll be at the Exeter LitFest on Saturday April 5, 11-5pm. My panel on family and finding home is at 2:45, followed by National Book Award winner, Dr. Tiya Miles at 4! Come out if you’re not at one of the National protests! If you are, thank you for fighting!
#authorsky
#authorsky
March 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
NH and ME peeps! I’ll be at the Exeter LitFest on Saturday April 5, 11-5pm. My panel on family and finding home is at 2:45, followed by National Book Award winner, Dr. Tiya Miles at 4! Come out if you’re not at one of the National protests! If you are, thank you for fighting!
#authorsky
#authorsky