Chen Chen (born March 9, 1989) is a Chinese-American poet. His book, ''When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities'', has been longlisted for the 2017 National Book Awards. Chen has served as the Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University since 2018. He also serves on the poetry faculty for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College and Stonecoast.

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

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in 2014. Chen completed his Ph.D. in English and creative writing at Texas Tech University, where he was a part-time instructor in composition. 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.'' 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.

Awards and fellowships

* 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature *2019

Pushcart Prize The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are ...

*2018

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*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 * 2014 New Delta Review's Matt Clark Award in Poetry * 2014 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize * 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) * ''When I Grow Up I Want to be a List of Further Possibilities'' (New York: BOA Editions, 2017) * ''Kissing the Sphinx'' (Two of Cups Press, 2016) * ''Set the Garden on Fire'' (Porkbelly Press, 2015) In anthology * ''Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology'' (University of Georgia Press, 2018)

References

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