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Chen Chen (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, has been longlisted for the 2017 National Book Awards.[2] Chen has served as the Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University since 2018.[3] He also serves on the poetry faculty for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College and Stonecoast.[4]

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.[4] Chen completed his Ph.D. in English and creative writing at Texas Tech University, where he was a part-time instructor in composition.[5]

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.[6] 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.[7]

Awards and fellowships

• 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature
• 2019 Pushcart Prize
• 2018 Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry
• 2018 Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) New Writers Award
• 2018 Finalist, Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry
• 2017 Longlisted, National Book Award
• 2016 Kundiman Fellow
• 2015 Finalist, Poetry Foundation's Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships[8]
• 2014 New Delta Review's Matt Clark Award in Poetry
• 2014 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize[9]
• 2014 Finalist, Narrative's 30 Below Contest
• 2011 Joyce Carol Oates Award

Books

• Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (New York: BOA Editions, forthcoming September 2022) [4]
• When I Grow Up I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities (New York: BOA Editions, 2017)[4][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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