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Joni Cham

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Joni Cham

Joni Cham is the author of the novel In My Mother’s House, which was published in the Philippines in 2012 and was a finalist for the Philippine National Book Award in 2013. She was a participant in the New York Foundation for the Arts’s Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program. A Filipino of Chinese descent, she has been living in Brooklyn for almost four years. She still dreads winter. She tweets from @pakainin.

Articles by Joni Cham

Owning a Borrowed Language
By Joni Cham
Joni Cham’s essay appears as a part of a special series featuring New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program fellows discussing their relationship…
From “In My Mother’s House”
By Joni Cham
This excerpt from Joni Cham’s fiction appears as a part of a series featuring fellows in the New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program. Read Joni’s essay about…