Wendy Chin-Tanner Books in Order

Journalist Owen Graham embeds with environmental extremists, only to become involved in a hostage crisis and a federal investigation. He and three fellow idealists find themselves fugitives, challenging the boundary between political activism and terrorism.

Chin-Tanner's poems use personal experience to explore race, gender, abuse, motherhood, love, and death. Questions of forgiveness and human change connect intimate memories with wider reflections on how people reconcile the contradictions of their lives.

These poems explore relationships between identity and gender, parents and children, and human life and the wider environment. Experiments with form and rhythm examine the maternal body, technology, and the political dimensions of personal experience.

In 1950s America, Chinese immigrant Victor is sent to Louisiana's Carville institution after a diagnosis of Hansen's disease. Separated from his family, he discovers music, friendship, and first love while confronting an uncertain future beyond quarantine.