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Chen Chen (Шаблон:Lang-zh, born March 9, 1989) is a Chinese-American poet.[1] His book, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, was longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry.[2] Chen serves on the poetry faculty for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College and Stonecoast.[3] He served as Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University from 2018-2022.

Life

Chen was born in Xiamen, China and grew up in Massachusetts. After graduating from Newton North High School, he received his B.A. in creative writing and Asian/Pacific/American Studies at Hampshire College in 2011, and his M.F.A. from Syracuse University in 2014.[3] Chen completed his Ph.D. in English and creative writing at Texas Tech University, where he was a part-time instructor in composition.[4]

His work has appeared in Poetry, The Massachusetts Review, Drunken Boat, Best of the Net, The Best American Poetry, The Academy of American Poets, and elsewhere. He has served as a poetry editor for Salt Hill Journal, and currently serves as editor-in-chief of Underblong and managing editor for Iron Horse Review.[5] He also edits "the lickety split", a Twitter-based journal that "only publishes poems that fit in a single tweet", alongside his fictional assistant editor Gudetama the Egg.[6]

Awards and fellowships

Books

  • Explodingly Yours (Ghost City Press, 2023)[9]
  • Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (New York: BOA Editions, September 2022) [3]
  • When I Grow Up I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities (New York: BOA Editions, 2017)[3][10][11]
  • Kissing the Sphinx (Two of Cups Press, 2016)[12]
  • Set the Garden on Fire (Porkbelly Press, 2015)[13]

In anthology

  • Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology (University of Georgia Press, 2018)[14]

References

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