Second Place Language
According to people I met back home, my face didn’t match my voice.
Kaitlin Chan is a cartoonist and cultural worker in Hong Kong. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker online, Astra Magazine, Catapult, Awry Comics, Oprah Daily, The Margins, The Offing, Popula and elsewhere. In 2021, she was shortlisted for the Cartoonist Studio Prize in Webcomics from the Center for Cartoon Studies.
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