Jun Chou

Jun Chou (she/they) is a writer based in Brooklyn. During the day, she improves recipe discovery for the NYT Cooking app. Other times you can find her belting karaoke, updating Letterboxd, rock climbing, or drafting her debut novel. Her writing has been featured or upcoming in The New York Times, Electric Literature, Teen Vogue, Ricepaper Mag, and BBC Travel. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram @junnotjune.

A collage featuring a portrait and two paintings of an Asian man in a cowboy hat, against a red, brick building backdrop.

442: Martin Wong, the artist who immortalized New York City

The queer Chinese American artist painted a city that no longer exists, before the glitzy tourist traps and sterile storefronts appeared