I am represented by Clare Mao at Europa Content. I was previously co-founding editor of Still / Loud, a senior reporter at Hong Kong Free Press, and Associate Editor at Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong. A conversation with Karen Cheung about her memoir The Impossible City, the nascent Hong Kong literary tradition, and understanding a period of upheaval through art and cultural expression. I currently co-run the literary journal Cicada, which is open to submissions all year round.

Once upon a time, I made a zine called Roses in a Beer Can. Enter for a chance to win a copy of THE IMPOSSIBLE CITY by Karen Cheung An insiders account of Hong Kong-from its tenacious counterculture and robust underground music scene, to its unique history of youth-led protest-t.more. My writing has also appeared in the anthologies Making Space : A Collection of Writing and Art (2023), Writing in Difficult Times : A Bilingual Essay Anthology (2021), and Aftershock : Essays from Hong Kong (2020). My essays, reported features, and cultural criticism have been published in the New York Times, Foreign Policy, This American Life, New Statesman, The Rumpus, Evergreen Review, The Offing, and elsewhere. I’ve written about the anti-extradition bill protests of 2019, the music scene in Hong Kong’s industrial buildings, and life in the city in the aftermath of the national security law. He is a writer, editor and occasional radio host based in Hong Kong.I’m a writer from Hong Kong, and the author of The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir (Random House). Karen can be followed on Twitter at Gordon has an MPhil from Oxford in International Relations and a BA from Harvard. She was formerly a reporter at Hong Kong Free Press and was co–founding editor of Still / Loud, an indie magazine about culture and music in Hong Kong. Hums with wide-eyed discoveries and the lowest heartache, quiet intimacies and street-shaking roars, the thrill of being lost in this massive. One of the best books of the year: the Washington Post and The Economist. Her essays, cultural criticism, and reported features have appeared on This American Life and in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, and other publications. Random House (February 2022) Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Karen Cheung is a writer and journalist from Hong Kong. The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir by Karen Cheung 3.95 avg. In this interview, Karen and I talk about Hong Kong-the home city for both of us-and what it means to grow up in such a dense, unsure and misunderstood place. The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir by Karen Cheung is a deep dive into the things that make Hong Kong different, diverse and difficult. The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir, Karen Cheung (Random House, February 2021) Too often, the city has had to struggle with shorthand used by those writing about the city from afar-for audiences with little understanding of what the place is actually like. Through vivid and character-rich stories, Cheung braids a dual narrative of her own coming of age alongside that of her generation.

Hong Kong is almost impossible to explain to those not from the city.

Karen cheung the impossible city