Fiction. Asian American Studies. Gay and Lesbian Studies. As a performance artist, Justin Chin has created eight full-length solo performance works and several shorter works, which have been presented nationally and abroad. ATTACK OF THE MAN-EATING LOTUS BLOSSOMS is a collection of performance art texts, documents, and scripts. These writings collect the author's performance work from 1993-2001. "Chin is one of the few national-caliber slam poets who succeed with material that's gut-wrenchingly personal and at the same time loaded with satire and commentary on pop culture"--SF Bay Guardian.
Justin Chin is the author of two collections of poetry, Harmless Medicine and Bite Hard (Manic D Press), and two collections of essays, Burden of Ashes (Alyson Press) and Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes and Pranks (St. Martin's Press). In the 1990's, as a performance artist, he created several performance works that were presented nationally and abroad. He lives in San Francisco.