Chen Chen (born in Shijiazhuang, China) is a Chinese American poet who immigrated to the United States with his family 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 for Gay Poetry, among other honors, and was longlisted for the National Book Award. His work explores queer identity, immigration, family, and the possibilities and limits of belonging with tenderness and wit. He received his MFA from Syracuse University and a PhD from Texas Tech University. He has been a Kundiman Fellow and received a Pushcart Prize.