Chen Chen is an American poet whose book When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities was longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry. Chen also wrote Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, and teaches poetry in the low-residency MFA programs at New England College and Stonecoast. From 2018 to 2022, Chen served as Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University.
