Andy Chen
Literature
Spring 2024
Poet and Assistant Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity & Engagement at John Burroughs School – United States – John Burroughs Bogliasco Special Fellow
Andy Chen was born and raised in the pretty part of New Jersey. The recipient of a Kundiman fellowship and a Pushcart Prize, he holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. His poems appear in Ploughshares, New England Review, The Offing, and elsewhere, and his reviews appear in Hong Kong Review of Books, Hyphen, and Colorado Review. He teaches at John Burroughs School in St. Louis.
Andy Chen will be working on a collection of poems exploring the intersection of identity and lived experience. The poems engage a range of concerns, including desire, family, masculinity, racism, and basketball. These concerns exist in the poems alongside an exploration of the Asian American experience and the mythologies that make up the wider American experience. The collection will include a series of poems in conversation with the Filial Exemplars, a Confucian text on filial piety.