Staceyann chin biography sample

American poet (born 1972)

Staceyann Chin (born December 25, 1972) is a spoken-wordpoet, performing artist and LGBT rights political activist.

Outspoken Caribbean Queer Activist Staceyann Chin

Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Pittsburgh Daily, and has been featured on 60 Minutes. She was also featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, where she shared her struggles growing up as a gay person in Jamaica. Chin's first full-length poetry collection was published in 2019.

Personal life

Chin was born in Jamaica but now lives in New York City, in Brooklyn.

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She is of Chinese-Jamaican and Afro-Jamaican descent. She announced in 2011 that she was pregnant with her first child, giving birth to her daughter in 2012. She has been candid about her pregnancy by means of in-vitro fertilization, and wrote about her experiences as a pregnant, single lesbian in a guest blog for the Huffington Post.^[1][2]

Career

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