Michelle Chen
New York University
Michelle Chen takes inspiration from the events that occur in and around her home, New York City, though her birthplace is Singapore and she hopes to return and visit someday. Her work appears in Prairie Schooner, Asian American Writers' Workshop's The Margins, the YoungArts Gallery, Deep Wild, Kinsman Quarterly: Winds of Asia, The Evergreen Review, The Statesman, and elsewhere. Her writing has been recognized by Ploughshares Emerging Writers, the City College of New York, Brooklyn Public Library, and Penguin Random House, among others. She is an alumni of Girls in Icy Fjords, the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship, Girls Write Now, the Juniper Institute for Young Writers, and the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio with the support of the National Society of Arts and Letters. At Stony Brook University she received the Best Masters Essay Prize, Distinguished Travel Award, and AAPI Mentorship Travel Grant where she studied abroad and taught postgraduates in the PhD Career Ladder Program, and is currently a Master’s student at NYU. She is part of the Teaching Artist Project at Community-Word Project, has acted in the BC2M-AAPI Project by Bring Change to Mind, Billion Dollar Beauty UGC Campaign x Model Mayhem, as well as indie and college feature films, and is seeking critique partners along with educational, research conference presentation, modeling, and performance collaborations, while getting less ice and less sugar in her winter melon milk tea. You can follow her collegiate book blog at https://silkwormreading.blogspot.com and on Instagram @michmashedpotatoes.
