Book - All Heathens

Winner of the 2022 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Outstanding Achievement in Creative Writing: Poetry
Winner of the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) 2021 New Writers Award
Ohioana Book Awards Winner for Poetry
Longlisted for Julie Suk Award
Poets & Writers, “Page One: Where New and Noteworthy Books Begin”
CLMP, “A Reading List for Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month and Beyond”
Electric Literature, “20 New Asian American Books to Read Right Now”
Largehearted Boy, "Favorite Poetry Collections of 2020"

All Heathens is a declaration of ownership—of bodies, of histories, of time. Revisiting Magellan’s voyage around the world, Marianne Chan navigates her Filipino heritage by grappling with notions of diaspora, circumnavigation, and discovery. Whether rewriting the origin story of Eve (“I always imagined that the serpent had the legs of a seductive woman in black nylons”), or ruminating on what-should-have-been-said “when the man at the party said he wanted to own a Filipino,” Chan paints wry, witty renderings of anecdotal and folkloric histories, while both preserving and unveiling a self that dares any other to try and claim it.