Belle Turnbull and “close friend” Helen Rich moved to Summit County in 1937 after they retired, settling in Breckenridge not long after arriving. The two would later go on to be remembered for their literary.
Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018), and the chapbook
Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review, 2017). She was a 2020 and 2014 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship finalist, a 2020 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry for
Revenge of the Asian Woman, and a 2019 recipient of the Philip Freund Prize in Creative Writing from Cornell University. Her work has appeared in
POETRY,
The American Poetry Review,
Academy of American Poets, and elsewhere. Chan is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Poetry Editor of
Hobart, Book Review Co-Editor of
Pleiades, and Founding Editor and Editor in Chief of