Christina Cha
Christina Cha is a writer of creative nonfiction, poetry, and short fiction. Her work has been published in The Coachella Review, Pratik, and The Los Angeles Press. She was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2023 and was shortlisted for the 46th New Millennium Writing Award for Nonfiction. She is featured in and a consulting producer for You Are My Audience, a documentary in 10 self-portraits, which released in December 1, 2023. Her portrait is about her relationship to her aunt, the artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. She is currently working on her upcoming collection, Dreaming of the Unicorn. Christina is also an editor and writing mentor and has been teaching in Sarah Selecky’s Writing School since 2013. She currently lives and writes in Los Angeles, after many years in San Francisco.
Highlights of Published Work and Other Projects
Consulting Producer and subject of feature-length documentary
You Are My Audience. Distribution release: December 1, 2023. Available on major streaming platforms.
“Untitled” The Los Angeles Press, Volume 8. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize, 2023.
“One Step Into the Frog Swamp”
The Los Angeles Press, Volume 6, 2022
“Chaste You Wait”
The Los Angeles Press, Volume 7, 2022
The Coachella Review, Winter 2017
“Who Were You, Writer, Artist of the Avant Garde, Theresa—Murdered November 5, 1982?”
Pratik, November 2023
Featured artist readings and talks include: The New School, The New York City Poetry Festival, Los Angeles AWP 2025 panel on the passing of artist Yong Soon Min, Baltimore AWP 2026 panel on Aunts in Asian American stories, Hopscotch Reading Room (Berlin), and numerous festivals and book launches in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and New York.
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