Andy Chen is a Taiwanese American poet and educator. His debut book of poetry, Like a Golden Spike, won the 2026 Barry Spacks Prize and is forthcoming from Gunpowder Press in 2027.

The recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from Kundiman and the Bogliasco Foundation, he holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. He is the 2024 winner of the Ploughshares Emerging Writers’ Contest.

His poems appear in Poetry, Ploughshares, New England Review, The Offing, Split Lip, Only Poems, Boulevard, 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 and serves on the Board of Trustees of Kundiman. He also co-curates the St. Louis Poetry Center’s reading series Poetry at the Point.

He was born and raised in New Jersey.