Chen Chen (poet)
American poet
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Chen Chen (Chinese: 陳琛; pinyin: Chén Chēn, born March 9, 1989) is an 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 to 2022.
Syracuse University (M.F.A.)
Texas Tech University (Ph.D.)
Chen Chen | |
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Chen at the 2017 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | March 9, 1989 |
| Education | Hampshire College (B.A.) Syracuse University (M.F.A.) Texas Tech University (Ph.D.) |
| Website | www |
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",[6] alongside his fictional assistant editor Gudetama the Egg.[7]
Awards and fellowships
- 2014 A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize[8]
- 2014 New Delta Review's Matt Clark Award in Poetry
- 2015 Finalist, Poetry Foundation's Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships[9]
- 2016 Kundiman Fellow
- 2017 Longlisted, National Book Award
- 2018 Finalist, Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry
- 2018 GLCA New Writers Award (Poetry)[10]
- 2018 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
- 2019 Pushcart Prize
- 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature
- 2023 American Library Association Notable Books for Adults List[11][12]
Books
- Set the Garden on Fire (Porkbelly Press, 2015)[13]
- Kissing the Sphinx (Two of Cups Press, 2016)[14]
- When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (New York: BOA Editions, 2017)[3][15][16]
- Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (New York: BOA Editions, September 2022)[3]
- Explodingly Yours (Ghost City Press, 2023)[17]
In anthology
- Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology (University of Georgia Press, 2018)[18]