Chen Chen by Paula Champagne

Chen Chen’s second book of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, is forthcoming from BOA Editions (US) and Bloodaxe Books (UK) in September 2022. Chen’s debut, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA, 2017; Bloodaxe, 2019), was long-listed for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. Chen has also written four chapbooks, and his first essay collection, In Cahoots with the Rabbit God, is forthcoming from Noemi Press in late 2023. With a brilliant team, he edits the journal Underblong. He also edits the lickety~split, a Twitter-based journal celebrating short poems. He teaches at Brandeis University as the Jacob Ziskind Poet in Residence and serves on the poetry faculty for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College and Stonecoast. Presented in partnership with FIU Writers on the Bay Series.