Chen Chen

Chen Chen received a PhD from Texas Tech University. He is the author of Quintessential Earthly Activities (Boa Editions, 2027); Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (Boa Editions, 2022); and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (Boa Editions, 2017), which won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and was long-listed for the National Book Award.

The recipient of a 2022 United States Artists fellowship and 2019 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, Chen is a poetry instructor in the MFA program at New England College. He lives in Rochester, New York.