Anelise Chen

Anelise Chen is the author of the experimental novel So Many Olympic Exertions, a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. She is a 5 Under 35 Honoree from the National Book Foundation. Her hybrid memoir, Clam Down, is 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. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, NPR, BOMB Magazine, The New Republic, VICE, Village Voice and many other publications. 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.