Jessamine.Chan

I’ll be traveling to Iowa City for in April and will try to have some chill when meeting these folks. 🤩🤩🤩

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I was just texting with Robert Jones about CINEMA LOVE this week, so let me tell you about ’s debut here. Forthcoming from in May 2024. Totally available for pre-order. Goodreads giveaway happening now. The back cover of the galley includes a fun Chan-Chan collab with Vanessa. I love this book so much and can’t wait for the world to discover this story and these characters and most wonderful Andy, for whom I have the fun of serving as book auntie. Ahyi is so proud!

Here’s my full blurb:

“Lush, romantic, daring, and filled with indelible characters, Cinema Love is not just an extraordinary debut, but a future classic. In this story of forbidden q***r love and the cost of secrets, Jiaming Tang gives voice, humanity, and dignity to people so often rendered invisible by society. Here, Chinese laborers, factory workers, seamstresses, nail technicians, and cooks take glorious center stage, their lives and deepest yearnings made epic. I absolutely loved this book and couldn’t stop reading.”

For the past two years, a great many writers have told me that I must (!!) get a speaking agent, so for those kind folks who’ve been looking out for me, and for anyone who might find this info useful, I’m so happy to share that I’m now represented by . Delighted to be working with and be part of this dazzling team. ❤️

Posted • We're thrilled to announce that we now represent .chan, author of the explosive novel, THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD MOTHERS, a vivid exploration into motherhood, misogynistic social orders, and mass surveillance.

Welcome to the team, Jessamine. 🎉

Click the link in our bio for more information.

For the past two years, so many writers I’ve met have kindly, sternly advised that I must (!!) get a speaking agent, so for those folks who’ve been looking out for me (and anyone else who might find this info useful), I’m so happy to share that I’m now represented by . Grateful to be working with and part of this dazzling team.

Posted • We're thrilled to announce that we now represent .chan, author of the explosive novel, THE SCHOOL FOR GOOD MOTHERS, a vivid exploration into motherhood, misogynistic social orders, and mass surveillance.

Welcome to the team, Jessamine. 🎉

Click the link in our bio for more information.

Thank you for the sweet treat and congrats on your new logo. My husband and I were just reminiscing about setting up our living room for the live taping. Hard to believe that was almost two years ago. Thank you for everything. ❤️

My last book event of the year will be next Thursday, Nov. 9 in Chicago, with attorney Chaundre S. White, for . So looking forward to this conversation and grateful for the chance to support the ACLU. Registration link in stories and via linktree/events. Join us!

Posted • Join on Thursday, Nov 9th for a Book Talk featuring .chan author of The School for Good Mothers. Jessamine will be in conversation with ACLU-IL Senior Supervising Attorney Chaundre S. White on how the themes of family regulation systems, censorship, and privacy from her book are reflected in our lived realities. RSVP to this event through the link in our bio.

Heading to Geneva, NY this week for my first campus visit, as part of the Trias Reading Series . Thank you for the invite (😘😘😘) and the chance to appear in the same frame as you and Sheila Heti. Can’t wait. ❤️

In late September, I had the huge honor of returning to Philly to share the stage with for Art As Advocacy: Family Policing & The Dystopia of Today, a panel organized over many months by . Thank you, Dr. Roberts, for all that you do. I continue to learn so much from your work. Being able to talk about the intersections between our books, and to be able to support the work of The Juvenile Law Center, is well beyond what I hoped for my novel and I feel very lucky to be able to participate in the conversation.

**TORN APART by just came out in paperback. Here is my latest reminder to read it!**

Thank you Riya .kleinman and your colleagues for all your hard work, and thanks to everyone who attended, including my friend Ellen, who trekked from DC. ❤️

Book baby has reached The Motherland! The China Times edition of TSFGM went on sale in Taiwan a month ago and I just received my copies and we’ve now reached peak Chan parent pride.

Endless thanks to my publisher, my translator Lyu Yi Xin, and to Xu Jinfan for writing the preface. (I really hope I have the pinyin for your names correct here.)

Every edition has been so special, but seeing my work translated into my parents’ native tongue is especially meaningful. It is SO COOL to see my Chinese name on the cover. It is so wild to know that my mom’s high school and college pals are reading my book. If I’m counting correctly, there are over 20 translations published/forthcoming, and I am so grateful.

and re-reading these books by in preparation for our panel event in Philly on Sept. 27, with .

For any TSFGM readers who want to learn more about the family policing system in America, the first book to read is TORN APART: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families — And How Abolition Can Build A Safer World. This is the book I mentioned in all my recent events. Truly so nervous to share the stage with Dr. Roberts, the leading scholar in the field, but also so excited.

One of the great, beyond my wildest dreams, surprises of the past year has been seeing TSFGM read alongside ’ TORN APART. I have the immense privilege of sharing the stage with Dr. Roberts on Sept. 27 in Philly. So excited/can’t believe it. Join us! ❤️

Link in stories and via .

Posted • Save the date! Juvenile Law Center x UArts x Harrietts presents Art as Advocacy: Family Policing and the Dystopia of Today, a robust conversation between esteemed author, Jessamine Chan and scholar and author, Dr. Dorothy Roberts on family policing and surveillance, the dystopia of the present and using art for advocacy and change.

The two authors will grapple with their various texts, dealing with child removal, the foster care system, "good parenting" and state surveillance. Hear how they use their words to ignite self-reflection and change in our society and with policymakers.

Then, consider how you might do the same. The conversation will be moderated by Riya Saha Shah, Senior Managing Director at Juvenile Law Center. 

Rumor has it there may even be signed books from the authors for those who RSVP at the

Recent delicious brain food.

I just want to be a friend of the show. Thank you for inviting me back to talk about the emotional journey of rewatching SATC Season 3 two decades later. Bonus episode for subscribers!

(For any family/family friends seeing this sexy image, it’s for a podcast!)

Posted • We had a blast with .chan! Over on Patreon + Apple Podcast Subscriptions. Thanks for supporting the show!

Group chat/longtime friendship as literary conversation. And our beloved joined the convo via the Q/A so we were still together. Thank you for hosting us and to everyone who attended our slumber party for TERRACE STORY.

Congrats and happy touring! ❤️

HAPPY PUB DAY ! 😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘