Chen Chen received his B.A. from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA and is currently a University Fellow in Syracuse University's creative writing program. He also teaches composition to undergraduates and serves as Assistant Poetry Editor for Salt Hill. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Connotation Press, Anti-, Ghost Proposal, and Verbal Seduction. He was a finalist for Sycamore Review's Wabash Poetry Prize and was the winner of Driftwood Press's 2013 Ghazal Contest.