Born in Shijiazhuang, China, Chen Chen immigrated to the United States and grew up in Massachusetts. His debut collection, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), won the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize and the Thom Gunn Award and was longlisted for the National Book Award. He earned an MFA from Syracuse University and a PhD from Texas Tech University. He is a Kundiman Fellow and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, and has received two Pushcart Prizes.
