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Kevin Chong (born 1975) is a Canadian author.Born in Hong Kong, Chong studied at the University of British Columbia and Columbia University, where he received an MFA in fiction writing.

His first novel, Baroque-a-Nova, was published in Canada by Penguin in 2001, in the United States by Putnam in 2002, and in France by Ballard in 2002. The New York Times Book Review describes the book as "a readable, if slightly gray, coming-of-age novel."

His second book Neil Young Nation (2005), a non-fiction work, traces the steps of Neil Young's 1970 trip across Canada and the United States. New York Times Book Review of compared the book to "watching an endless home movie in which a not very close friend visits all the houses he grew up in."

Chong works extensively as a freelance journalist.He is a practitioner of the martial art-like aerobic exercise form Tae Bo, Kevin Chong had a minor role in the film The Next Kumite He is also active in Vancouver's underground music scene, performing jazz under his stage name, "Butterscotch Panda."

Chong lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, and is an accomplished show dog handler. as well as an editor for A hub for short fiction. In 2010, there was public controversy about Chong's deletion of the short story "Swimmers" by Alex Leslie from the Vancouver Joyland page. Leslie stated in a post on her blog that her story had been deleted from Joyland by Chong and that she had not been informed of the story's deletion. Chong then reposted the story to Joyland with an editorial comment stating that "Swimmers" had been deleted due to Leslie's behaviour on a private Facebook page.

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