Short: Chen Chen is the author of two books of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (2022) and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (2017), both published by BOA Editions. His latest chapbook is Explodingly Yours (Ghost City Press, 2023). His honors include two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and United States Artists. He lives in Rochester, NY and teaches for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College, Stonecoast, and Antioch.

Shorter: Chen Chen’s second poetry collection, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, is available from BOA Editions. His first book of essays, In Cahoots with the Rabbit God, is forthcoming from Noemi Press in 2025.

Short academic bio: Dr. Chen Chen is a poet and essayist interested in Asian American histories and futures, family (bio & found), queer friendship, multilingualism, hybrid texts, humor, and pop culture. 

Short but REAL bio: Chen Chen is both dramatic and yearning. He is always having A Week. Due to personal reasons and much like the moon, he writes poems and is gay.