Chen
Chen

is the author of two books of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (2022), finalist for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize, and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (2017), longlisted for the National Book Award. Both books are published by BOA Editions and by Bloodaxe Books in the UK. His latest chapbook is Explodingly Yours (Ghost City Press, 2023). His honors include the Thom Gunn Award, three Pushcart Prizes, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and United States Artists. His work appears in many publications, including Poem-a-Day and Ploughshares. His poems are also reprinted in many anthologies, including 100 Queer Poems, 100 Poems That Matter, three editions of The Best American Poetry, two editions of The Forward Book of Poetry, and The Norton Introduction to Literature (15th edition). Chen has taught at UMass Boston, the University of Southern Maine, Antioch University Los Angeles, and Brandeis University as the 2018-2022 Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence. Currently he teaches for the MFA program at New England College. He edits the online poetry journals, Underblong and the lickety~split. He holds an MFA from Syracuse University and a PhD from Texas Tech University. He lives in Rochester, NY with his partner and their pug, Mr. Rupert Giles.

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Here is a long bio, a few short bios, a CV, and some thoughts on teaching.

Oh also an erasure of Tolstoy, a manifesto of friendship & play, and an ars poetica.

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