Anelise Chen is the author of the experimental novel, So Many Olympic Exertions (Kaya Press 2017), a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. She is a 5 under 35 Honoree from the National Book Foundation. She is currently at work on a hybrid memoir, Clam Down (One World Random House), based on her mollusk column for the Paris Review. She has received residencies and fellowships from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Blue Mountain Center, Banff Centre, the Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. Chen received her MFA from New York University and her bachelor’s degree from the University of California Berkeley. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Creative Writing at Columbia University School of the Arts.

Biography current as of January 2023