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 Love That for Us, a collaboration with Sam Herschel Wein, forthcoming from & Change in 2026. And his book of craft essays, In Cahoots with the Rabbit God, is forthcoming from Noemi Press in 2027.

A Kundiman community member, his honors include the Thom Gunn Award, three Pushcart Prizes, the National Book Award longlist, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and United States Artists. His work appears in many publications, including 100 Queer Poems, 100 Poems That Matter, three editions of The Best American Poetry, two editions of The Forward Book of Poetry, and The Norton Introduction to Literature (15th edition). 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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There are, in fact, some ways to contact me.

Thank you.