Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, Peter Chen learned that Chinatown was a place where the fruit looked spotty but tasted sweet. That agricultural impression planted a seed that later grew to become the story he is thrilled to contribute to Cha. He now lives in Orange County, California, with his wife and two children. He was a participant in the Squaw Valley Writers Workshop, and has previously published in Hospital Drive (University of Virginia). [Fiction]