Paloma Chen

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Paloma Chen (b. 1997, Alicante) investigated the Chinese diaspora in Spain in Crecer en ‘un chino’ and has contributed to El Salto, El País, and La Marea. She won the 2020 Viva #LdeLírica National Poetry Prize and has recited in such festivals as Irreconciliables in Málaga and in spaces such as the Fórum Social Europeu das Migrações and the Asia Europe Peoples’ Forum.

  • A photograph of a firework erupting at dusk. The darkening sky is just visible in the gap between two buildings.

    Obscenity

    May 2023
    Paloma Chen
      I’m terrified of my migrant parents, always with their eyes set on flight. Is that how you solve everything,       Papá? Are you going to once more do what he tells you, Mamá? I’m more terrified by…