Profile

Chen Chen is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, 2017), which was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. Bloodaxe Books has just released the UK edition.

He is also the author of four chapbooks, most recently You MUST Use the Word Smoothie (Sundress Publications, 2019) and GESUNDHEIT! (with Sam Herschel Wein and out now from Glass Poetry Press). His work appears in many publications, including Poetry, Poem-a-Day, The Best American Poetry (2015 & 2019), and The Best American Nonrequired Reading (2017). He has received a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Kundiman and the National Endowment for the Arts. He holds an MFA from Syracuse University and a PhD from Texas Tech University. He teaches at Brandeis University as the Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence and co-runs the journal Underblong. He lives in Waltham, MA with his partner, Jeff Gilbert, and their pug, Mr. Rupert Giles. chenchenwrites.com

Yuri Herrera

Visiting VCFA Reads Author, Winter 2018

Vandana Khanna

Visiting Poet, MFA in Writing

Ada Limón

Visiting Poet, Summer 2017

Brendan Constantine

Distinguished Visiting Alumnx in Poetry

A. Van Jordan

Visiting Poet and Distinguished VCFA Alumnx in Film

Laura van den Berg

Visiting Fiction Writer, Summer 2021