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Ken Chen
Born1979 (age 44–45)
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley, Yale Law School
Occupation(s)Poet, Lawyer

Ken Chen (born 1979 San Diego, California) is an American poet and lawyer.

Early life

In 1979, Chen was born in San Diego, California. Chen's parents are immigrant from Taiwan. Chen grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area.[1]

Education

In 2001, Chen earned a BA degree in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. In Spring 2005 Chen earned a JD from Yale Law School. [2]

Career

Chen was an editor of Arts & Letters Daily while at Berkeley and worked at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP after law school. He is currently director of the Asian American Writers' Workshop.[3]

His writing has been published the Art Asia Pacific, Boston Review of Books, Manoa, Field, Pleiades,[4] and Barrow Street, Bridge, Radical Society, 5 Fingers Review,[5] and Palimpsest.

In 2004, Chen started his law career at Hughes, Hubbard & Reed, L.L.P in New York City, New York. [2]

Personal life

Chen lives in Brooklyn, New York.[6][7]

Awards

Works

  • Juvenilia. Yale University Press. April 2010. ISBN 978-0-300-16007-9.
  • Best American Essays 2006. Houghton Mifflin. 2006. ISBN 978-0-618-70529-0.

References