"When I’m feeling lost or overwhelmed, I go back, again and again, to this wonderful quote from E.L..."

“When I’m feeling lost or overwhelmed, I go back, again and again, to this wonderful quote from E.L Doctorow: ‘Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.’ And it really is true. You don’t have to have everything figured out up front; you just have to know enough to take one step forward, and then another.”

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Kirstin Chen’s new novel, Bury What We Cannot Take, has been named a Most Anticipated Upcoming Book by Electric Literature, The Millions, The Rumpus, Harper’s Bazaar, and InStyle, among others. She is also the author of Soy Sauce for Beginners. She was the fall 2017 NTU-NAC National Writer in Residence in Singapore, and has received awards from the Steinbeck Fellows Program, Sewanee, Hedgebrook, and the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference. Born and raised in Singapore, she currently resides in San Francisco.

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