Jack Cheng is a Shanghai-born, Detroit-based children’s author, pattern linguist, and slow technologist.
I write books for ten-year-olds of all ages, including 
See You in the Cosmos (translated into over twenty languages) and 
The Many Masks of Andy Zhou (named 2024 Best Book in Children’s Fiction by the Chinese American Librarians Association).
Shop Notes is my (new) journal for stray thoughts, inspirations, and creative projects, like 
Bebop (an iOS app for capturing quick markdown notes) to designs for a small dream house.
Sunday Letter is my monthly(ish) newsletter. I’ve been writing it since 2014. Recent topics include: living software, poetry is everywhere, and plant sociability.
I’m also a Kresge Artist Fellow, visiting faculty at Antioch University Los Angeles’s MFA program, senior editor at Every, MSU Extension Master Gardener, and graduate of Building Beauty, an architecture diploma program based on the work of Christopher Alexander.
I have a few interests.
Email me: [email protected]