“Epic and intimate at once, Bestiary brings myth to visceral life, showing what becomes of women and girls who carry tigers, birds, and fish within. K-Ming Chang’s talent exposes what is hidden inside us. She makes magic on the page.”—Julia Philips, author of the National Book Award finalist Disappearing Earth

“K-Ming Chang is ferociously talented, one of my favorite new writers. She understands the language of desire and secrecy. Here is a book so wise; so gripping; so mythical and dangerous; so infused with surreal beauty, it burns to be read, and read again.”—Justin Torres, author of We the Animals

“Told by many voices, Bestiary is a queer, transnational fairy tale whose irresistible heroine is a Taiwanese American baby dyke. Written in a prose style as inventive and astonishing as the story it tells, to read it is to enter a world where the female body possesses enormous power, where the borders between generations are porous and shifting. A worthy heir to Maxine Hong Kingston, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, and Jamaica Kincaid, K-Ming Chang is a woman warrior for the 21st century—part oracle, part witness, all heart.”—Jennifer Tseng, author of Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness

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Based in New York, K-Ming Chang is a Kundiman fellow and a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her debut novel BESTIARY is forthcoming from One World / Random House on September 8, 2020.

T Kira Mahealani Madden is a writer, photographer, and amateur magician. She is the author of the memoir Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls (Bloomsbury, 2019) and the Editor-in-Chief of No Tokens. She currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.

Secrets and Truths: K-Ming Chang on Bestiary with T Kira Madden