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 and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. His work appears in many publications, including Poetry and The Best American Poetry (2015 and 2019). He has received a Pushcart Prize and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at Brandeis University.