Author

Justin V.
Chiang

Fiction and memoir rooted in Philadelphia — stories about the systems we build, the ones we inherit, and the ones we survive.

Repossessed
01
Repossessed
Horror · Comedy
Charlie Young repossesses cars and ignores ghosts. He's been seeing the dead since he was six — long enough to know better than to help them. But Philadelphia is built on bones, and the dead are getting tired of being ignored.
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Written
02
Written
Literary Fiction
When Owen Hart discovers a published novel that mirrors his own unfinished manuscript — same images, same structure, same beating heart — his obsession will cost him everything. The truth is stranger than plagiarism and older than either of them.
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Rendered
03
Rendered
Literary Fiction
Maren designs places that feel real enough to believe in. Then a harbor she's never visited begins to repeat — same lamplighter, same impossible hour, same details returning too exactly. What begins as a pattern becomes something harder to ignore. The place isn't just familiar. It's remembering her.
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Feed the River
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Feed the River
Fiction
Philadelphia podcaster Jake Sansoni has built a career debunking patterns that look like evidence. Then the researcher he's been publicly disagreeing with goes silent — and the thread she left behind keeps pointing somewhere it shouldn't.
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The Accidental Architect
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The Accidental Architect
Memoir
A memoir about growing up inside broken systems and learning to build better ones. Not a story about sudden success — but about accumulation: of mistakes, of resilience, of hard-won clarity. And what it costs to become reliable when you were never protected.
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May 2026
Repossessed published — a horror-comedy set in Philadelphia about a Wasian repo man who can see ghosts but refuses to help them.
Apr 2026
Written completed. Two writers, one story, a city full of echoes.
Mar 2026
The Accidental Architect submitted to literary representation. Currently on submission.
2025
Rendered completed. Five manuscripts finished.
Justin V. Chiang

Justin is a Philadelphia-area author and AI BI engineer whose work explores systems — the ones we build, the ones we inherit, and the ones we survive.

He is the author of The Accidental Architect, Feed the River, Written, Rendered, and Repossessed. His work sits at the intersection of structure and uncertainty — inherited patterns, the boundary between imagined and real, what cities hide inside themselves.

He lives outside Philadelphia with his family.

Based in Philadelphia, PA
Genres Literary Fiction · Horror · Memoir
For queries, rights, and general correspondence —
justinvchiang@gmail.com