Jezz Chung
Author of
This Way to Change: a gentle guide to personal transformation and collective liberation (Chronicle Prism, 2024)
Jezz Chung is a writer, speaker, and performer exploring the intersection of personal transformation and collective change. Chung blends elements of their experiences as an autistic, disabled, queer, Korean American into their work to build accessible, equitable, liberated futures.
They have been featured internationally in Paper Mag, Vogue Italia, Spain’s El País, and Portugal’s Público, have been invited to speak at Columbia University, Vice, and Google, have written for Washington Post and i-D, were named a Pride honoree by Logo TV and a mental health advocate by Made of Millions.
Jezz has an audio series with Deem Journal titled "Dreaming Different" about building a neurodivergent future now available on all podcast platforms, will be releasing their debut book titled This Way to Change with Chronicle Prism in Spring 2024, and is an ensemble member of the experimental theater group New York Neo-Futurists. You can follow their journey @jezzchung on Instagram, where they sing from their bathroom, share resources for artists and changemakers, and document the realities of living with chronic depression.
Books by Jezz
This Way to Change: a gentle guide to personal transformation and collective liberation (Chronicle Prism, 2024)
An inspirational roadmap to changing yourself—and the world—through self-healing, transformation, and decolonization from artist, poet, and changemaker Jezz Chung.
Artist, poet, and performer Jezz Chung (they/them) focuses on cultural change through personal transformation. In This Way to Change, Jezz shares contemporary poetry, accessible prose, and healing practices from different therapeutic modalities to explore subjects like healing your inner child, nourishing friendships, decolonizing your thinking, deconstructing binaries, and intentional community-making. The interactive healing practices in this book include writing and reflection prompts, somatic exercises, guided meditations, and more to help readers tap into their powers of self-healing on their journey through change.
Anyone interested in social justice, racial and disability issues, LGBTQIA+ and other marginalized identity issues
Those seeking guidance in alternative wellness, self-guided healing, intentional community building, and collective care
AAPI readers interested in Jezz Chung’s Korean American perspective on identity, decolonization, and intergenerational trauma
Readers of Self-Love Poetry, Heart Talk, and such bestselling authors as Alexandra Elle and Yung Pueblo