Jiaming Tang ’18

Jiaming Tang is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn, NY.

Tang is the author of Cinema Love, winner of the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Prize for First Fiction; the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction; and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction.

It was also a finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.

He was a 2022-23 Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow, and his work appears in AGNI, Jezebel, Joyland, and elsewhere.

Cinema Love is about gay men in rural China, the women who marry them, and the secret theater where their husbands cruised for love.

Tang returned to campus in 2024 to speak in the Durst Distinguished Lecture Series, hosted by Associate Professor of Creative Writing Mehdi Okasi and Associate Professor of Literature Anthony Paul Domestico,