Wendy Chen

Wendy Chen (wendychenart.com) is the author of Unearthings (Tavern Books), editor of Figure 1, and associate editor-in-chief of Tupelo Quarterly. Chen is the recipient of the Academy of American Poets Most Promising Young Poet Prize and fellowships from MacDowell, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, and elsewhere. She earned her MFA in poetry from Syracuse University. Her debut novel, Their Divine Fires, is forthcoming from Algonquin in 2024. Her translations of Song-dynasty woman writer Li Qingzhao are forthcoming from FSG in 2025. She has been featured in the Culture Trip as one of "10 Young American Poets Changing the Face of Poetry."