Andy Chen is a Taiwanese American poet and educator. 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 Writer’s Contest, the runner-up of the 2024 Boulevard Poetry Contest for Emerging Writers, and a finalist for the 2024 New England Review Emerging Writers Award. His poems appear or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, New England Review, The Offing, The Margins, Poetry Northwest, Split Lip, 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 was born and raised in New Jersey.