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DMZ welcomes author Kara H L Chen.
Dark Matter Zine Acknowledges this recording is taking place on the unceded Country of the Bunurong Peoples’ of the Kulin Nation as Traditional Owners and Custodians of this Country. I pay my respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
Introducing author Kara H L Chen
Kara H L Chen grew up near Cleveland, Ohio, where she once had to shovel snow off her car with a plastic trashcan. She now lives on the West Coast with her husband and daughters, and is learning how to use an Instapot. Kara has undergraduate degrees in English and economics, a J.D., and a MFA in fiction. She has used her economics degree exactly once, when she tried to make a joke about marginal costs and marginal returns. It did not go well.
Interview points
I ask Kara to tell us about Love And Resistance.
We chatted about everything from snarky protagonists to racism to Kara’s favorite stories.
Her website has a page for Asking For A Friend. Is that her next book?
Find Kara H L Chen
You can find Kara on her website, twitter and instagram.
Thanks
Thank you to today’s guest Kara Chen! We have lots of fabulous authors visiting us over the next few months so watch this space. This has been a Dark Matter Zine podcast and I’m your host Nalini Haynes. Thank you for listening, stay safe and have fun.
If you enjoyed this podcast, you might like this discussion about diversity in YA (young adult fiction) and this conversation with YA author Sarah Ayoub.
Acknowledgement of Country
Dark Matter Zine Acknowledges this recording is taking place on the unceded Country of the Bunurong Peoples’ of the Kulin Nation as Traditional Owners and Custodians of this Country. I pay my respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
(I have occasionally acknowledged Country in podcasts. This year I aim to lift my game in many areas, so I plan to Acknowledge Country in every podcast. An Acknowledgement of Traditional Owners can be done by anyone. It’s a way of showing awareness of, and respect for, the Aboriginal Traditional Owners of the land where a meeting or event is held. For more information about Country and respect for Australia’s First Nations, read this post that also has links to useful websites.)
