2018 - 2020 Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence: Chen Chen! We are excited to welcome Chen Chen to Brandeis in the fall of 2018. We are so very grateful to Rebecca Morgan Frank for all the time, attention, care, and talent she brought to the position for the past two years, and we will miss her presence in the Brandeis community. Chen will be teaching the Intro to Creative Writing class this coming fall and a Creative Nonfiction and Poetry workshop in the spring of 2019. We h...ope you'll join us in welcoming Chen Chen in the fall, and we'll be having him offer a reading of his work so that you can better get to know his singular, powerful voice.
Chen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), which won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, the GLCA New Writers Award, and was longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry. The collection is also a Stonewall Honor Book in Literature and has been named a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. His work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Poetry, Tin House, The Best American Poetry, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. Recently, Poets & Writers featured him as one of “Ten Poets Who Will Change the World.” He lives with his partner, Jeff Gilbert and their pug dog, Mr. Rupert Giles.
http://chenchenwrites.com/
