K-Ming Chang is a Kundiman Fellow, a Lambda Literary Award winner, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and an O. Henry Prize winner. She is the author of Organ Meats, Bestiary, Gods of Want, and the forthcoming novella Cecilia.
I spent every night lying on the lower bunk of our bunk bed, looking up at the yellowed bottom of my brother’s mattress, crafting a future self in his shadow.