All Roads Lead to Blood

by Chau, Bonnie;

  Acknowledgments

  Invaluable thanks to: Allen Gee, Abbie Lahmers, Peter Selgin at 2040 Books; Mad Andrew Gifford and the team at SFWP; Mat Johnson; the literary journal and magazine editors and reading series organizers who have encouraged and supported me; Maxwell Williams; the Commitment; Columbia administrators, classmates, and teachers, especially those courses with Nicholas Christopher, Susan Bernofsky, Ben Marcus, and Elissa Schappell in which a number of these stories were formed/reformed; 92nd Street Y workshops with Christopher Sorrentino and Rivka Galchen; the Sackett Street Writers' Workshop with Jenny Zhang; the Asian American Writers' Workshop with Ed Lin; Vermont Studio Center, Art Farm Nebraska, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown for giving me time and space; Kundiman <3; and my parents Nelson and Grace, my sister Angie, and Neil, Sophie, & Ella, and all of my colleagues and roommates and friends and family who believe me when I tell them I'm a writer.

  Photo Credit: Maris Hutchinson

  Bonnie Chau is from Southern California, where she formerly ran writing programs at the nonprofit 826LA. She received her MFA in fiction and translation from Columbia University. She has been awarded fellowships from Kundiman, the Fine Arts Work Center, the American Literary Translators Association, and Vermont Studio Center, and her writing has appeared in Flaunt, Drunken Boat, The Offing, Joyland, Nat. Brut, and other journals. She works at an independent bookstore in Brooklyn and is assistant web editor at Poets & Writers. Find her online at bonniechau.com.