Chen Chen

Chen Chen is the author of two books of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (2022) and When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (2017), both published by BOA Editions and by Bloodaxe Books in the UK. His latest chapbook is Explodingly Yours (Ghost City Press, 2023). His writing is widely anthologized, including in 100 Poems That Matter, 100 Queer Poems, Poetry Is Not a Luxury, three editions of The Best American Poetry, and two editions of The Forward Book of Poetry. His honors include the Thom Gunn Award and three Pushcart Prizes. He lives in Rochester, NY and teaches for the MFA program at New England College. (Source)