陳琛 / Chen Chen

is the author of three books of poetry, including Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency (2022) and Quintessential Earthly Activities, forthcoming from Boa Editions in spring 2027. His latest chapbook is Love That For Us, a collaboration with Sam Herschel Wein, available now from & Change. And his book of craft essays, In Cahoots with the Rabbit God, is forthcoming from Noemi Press in late 2026.

A Kundiman community member, his honors include the National Book Award longlist, the Thom Gunn Award, three Pushcart Prizes, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and United States Artists. His work appears in many journals and anthologies, including Poetry, Ploughshares, three editions of The Best American Poetry, two editions of The Forward Book of Poetry, and The Norton Introduction to Literature. He teaches for the MFA program at New England College. He edits the online poetry journals, Underblong and the lickety~split. He lives in Rochester, New York with his partner and their pug, Mr. Rupert Giles.

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Here is a long bio, a few short bios, a CV, and some thoughts on teaching.

Oh also an erasure of Tolstoy, a manifesto of friendship & play, and an ars poetica.

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