Alvin Eng’s long, strange trip began in his family’s laundry in Flushing (presided over by his Cantonese opera-singing “Empress Mother”). From there, somehow, he became  an adolescent punk rocker and then a downtown playwright and storyteller inspired by a delayed embrace of his Chinese heritage. He teaches at Borough of Manhattan Community College, and if his students want to know more than what’s on Rate My Professors, they can read his memoir. It’s just out in paperback.
RELATED LINKS

* More about Alvin Eng
* A bit about his academic life at BMCC
* NYT: How a memoirist and playwright spends his Sundays 
* Alvin on YouTube