Lisa Chen
Lisa Chen was born in Taipei, wrote Mouth (Kaya Press), received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, and lives
in Brooklyn.
Three Asian Hair Stories
By Lisa ChenThe first hair I found was between the pages of a magazine ruelled between the mattress and the wall. It had to be hers; my own hair stops at the shoulders.
In the Beginning, Sometimes I Left Messages in the Street
By Lisa ChenSome years ago I ran into Daisy at an opening for a group show on Orchard Street. The theme of the show was “Bad Optics” and I don’t remember much about the artwork except for a wall of small square canvases, each a painting of different yet eerily identical scenes of the backsides of cops as they swarmed someone unseen on the ground.
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