Department of English

Chen Chen

Jacob Ziskind Visiting Poet-in-Residence

Select Publications

• "When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities." BOA Editions, 2017.
• "Kissing the Sphinx." Two of Cups Press, 2016 (chapbook).
• "Set the Garden on Fire." Porkbelly Press, 2015 (chapbook).
• Poems in Poetry Magazine, Tin House, The New York Times Magazine, Poem-a-Day, Oxford Poetry, The Best American Poetry, Bettering American Poetry, Best of the Net, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and elsewhere.
• Essays in Salt Hill, Kenyon Review Online, Fogged Clarity, and elsewhere.

Selected Awards

• Grant from United States Artists [USA], 2022
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, 2019
• Pushcart Prize, 2019
• Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, 2018
• Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) New Writers Award, 2018>
• Finalist, Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, 2018
• Longlist, National Book Award for Poetry, 2017
• A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, 2016

Current Projects

• "Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency" — a second full-length poetry collection
• "Gesundheit!" — a collaborative chapbook with the poet Sam Herschel Wein
• Co-founder and co-editor of Underblong, a poetry journal
• Guest editor of Bettering American Poetry anthology