Chen Chen

Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence

Departments/Programs

English

Degrees

Syracuse University, M.F.A.
Hampshire College, B.A.

Expertise

Creative writing; contemporary American poetry and creative nonfiction; Asian American and LGBTQ writers.

Profile

Chen Chen is a poet and essayist interested in how the personal and the political intersect, as well as how the humorous and the serious can combine.

Courses Taught

ENG	19a	Introduction to Creative Writing Workshop
ENG	109a	Poetry Workshop
ENG	119b	Poetry Workshop: Special Topics in Poetry
ENG	129a	Creative Nonfiction Workshop

Awards and Honors

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature (Creative Writing) (2019 - 2021)

Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) New Writers Award (2018)

The Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry (2018)

Writers’ League of Texas Book Award for Poetry (2018)

Scholarship

Chen, Chen, Cass, Meagan. You MUST Use the Word Smoothie: A Craft Essay in 50 Writing Prompts. Knoxville, Tennessee: Sundress Publications, 2019.

Chen, Chen. ""A Tired Sadness, a Fresh Rage”." McSweeney's.

Chen, Chen. ""I’m Not Here to Play the Suffering Minority for White Readers.”." Electric Literature.

Chen, Chen. "Autumn". 2018. The Massachusetts Review, (Poetry).

Chen, Chen. "Origin Story". 2018. Oxford Poetry, (Poetry).

Chen, Chen. "Set the Garden on Fire". 2018. Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, (Poetry).

Chen, Chen. "Sorrow Song with Optimus Prime". 2018. Brooklyn Poets, (Poetry).

Chen, Chen. "Spring," "Winter". 2018. The Massachusetts Review, (Poetry).

Chen, Chen. "Study Abroad". 2018. CityVerse column in City Newspaper, Rochester, NY. (Poetry).

Chen, Chen. "The School of Dreams". 2018. Sixth Finch, (Poetry).

Chen, Chen. "Things the Crows Bring". 2018. Pulse/Pulso: In Remembrance of Orlando, (Poetry).

Chen, Chen. “After My White Friend Says So Cool Upon Hearing Me Speak Chinese on the Phone with My Parents, I Take Another Sip of My Strawberry-Banana Smoothie & Contemplate Coolness & Chineseness," "Items May Have Shifted". 2018. Sine Theta Magazine, (Poetry).

Chen, Chen. “I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party”. 2018. The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, (Poetry).

Chen, Chen. “Quantitative Reasoning". 2018. Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color, (Poetry).

Chen, Chen. “The School of Australia,” “Anti-Elegy: A How-To,” selection from “A Small Book of Questions”. 2018. The McNeese Review, (Poetry).

Chen, Chen. “The School of Logic,” “The School of Joy / Letter to Michelle Lin”. 2018. West Branch, (Poetry).

Chen, Chen. “[Be the look],” “[Be the ridiculous]”. 2018. The Texas Review, (Poetry).

Chen, Chen. “four short essays personifying a future in which white supremacy has ended,” “Summer,” “A Queer Translates the Night Sky”. 2018. Foglifter, (Poetry).