poet / screenwriter / producer
Kirsten Shu-ying Chen is the author of “light waves” by Terrapin Books, a finalist for the Autumn House Press Chapbook Prize and a semi-finalist for the GRIST Pro Forma Contest.
Twice-nominated for a pushcart, Chen is the recipient of a 2023 MacDowell fellowship and has been shortlisted for the PANK Book Prize and Disquiet International Literary Prize.
Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Adroit Journal, Bear Review, Ephemera, Rattle, the NYTimes and Verse Daily, among others.
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@kirstenchen3@gmail.com / @tangentpursuit
poetry.
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Verse Daily. Inquisitive Eater. Bear Review. Beaver Magazine. Ephemera. Half Mystic. Lantern Review. Heron Tree. Yes Poetry. Bodega Magazine. Best American Poetry. PANK. Texas Review's Gordian Review. NYU Anamesa Journal. NoDear. Rattle. Seventh Wave Magazine
PRINT: Hanging Loose Press. VIATOR. Indicia and more.
Awards: “Light waves” was shortlisted for the 2020 PANK Little Books Contest, a finalist for the 2019 Autumn House Press Chapbook prize, and a semi-finalist for 2019 Tomaz Salamun prize. Chen’s been nominated twice for a pushcart and best of the net.
screenwriting. / sketch.
Chen’s original screenplays have been favored as an ISA Fast Track finalist, WeScreenplay Diverse Voices semi-finalist, and Sundance Episodic Lab second rounder. She’s also scored an “8” on The Blacklist.
Chen produced the Hollyshorts award-winning comedic film “Fruit Detective” and the web-series “This is me trying” and was a writer/actor/producer for the New York sketch team “One Prop Wonder.”
Her web-series “Beds,” which she wrote and produced, premiered at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image.
nonfiction.
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Hanging Loose Press (print)
Awards. Semi-finalist for the 2019 Grist Pro Forma Contest. Nominated twice by the Florida Review for Best of the Net 2018. Shortlisted for the 2018 DISQUIET International Literary Prize.
