Kai Cheng Thom is a writer, performance artist, social worker, fierce trans femme and notorious liar who loves lipstick and superhero cartoons. A prolific essayist and poet, her work appears online in publications including BuzzFeed, xoJane, Everyday Feminism, and Autostraddle; and in print in
Asian American Literary Review, Plenitude, and
Matrix Magazine, among others. Her first collection of poetry,
a place called No Homeland, was published by Arsenal Pulp Press in Spring 2017.
Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir is her first novel.