Ken Chen
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Yale University (JD)
- Poet
- lawyer
Ken Chen | |
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| Born | 1979 (age 46–47) San Diego, California, U.S. |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley (BA) Yale University (JD) |
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Ken Chen (born 1979 is an American poet and lawyer.
Chen was born in 1979 in San Diego, California, to a Taiwanese American family. Chen's parents are immigrants from Taiwan. Chen grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area.[1]
In 2001, Chen graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with his Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature. As an undergraduate, he earned the university's Kenneth Priestley Award, given for highest distinction in leadership. Chen then attended Yale Law School and earned his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Yale in 2005.[2]
Career
Chen was an editor of Arts & Letters Daily while at Berkeley and worked at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP after law school. He is currently director of the Asian American Writers' Workshop.[3]
His writing has been published the Art Asia Pacific, Boston Review of Books, Manoa, Field, Pleiades,[4] and Barrow Street, Bridge, Radical Society, 5 Fingers Review,[5] and Palimpsest.
In 2004, Chen started his law career at Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, L.L.P in New York City, New York.[2]
Personal life
Chen lives in Brooklyn, New York.[6][7]
