Chen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), which was longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry and won the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry, the GLCA New Writers Award, and the Writers' League of Texas Book Award. Bloodaxe Books published the UK edition in 2019. He is also the author of four chapbooks, most recently GESUNDHEIT!, a collaboration with Sam Herschel Wein (Glass Poetry Press, 2019). His work appears or is forthcoming in many publications, including Poetry, Ploughshares, The New York Times Magazine, and The Best American Poetry (2015 and 2019). He has received a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Kundiman and the National Endowment for the Arts. He holds an MFA from Syracuse University and a PhD from Texas Tech University. He co-runs the journal Underblong. He teaches at Brandeis University as the Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence and lives in Waltham with his partner, Jeff Gilbert, and their pug dog, Mr. Rupert Giles. 

Website: chenchenwrites.com

Twitter Username: @chenchenwrites

Publications

• When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities , BOA Editions (April 11, 2017)

Employment

• Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University (August 2018 - )

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in Literature and Creative Writing from Hampshire College (May 2011)
• Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from Syracuse University (May 2015)
• Doctoral Degree in English with Creative Writing Concentration from Texas Tech University (December 2018)

Genres of Interest

Creative nonfiction, Poetry