Michelle Chen

Michelle Chen takes inspiration for her creative and critical writing from the events that occur in and around her home, New York City, though her birthplace is Singapore and she hopes to return and visit someday. Her work appears in Prairie Schooner, Deep Wild, Kinsman Quarterly: Winds of Asia, The Evergreen Review, The Statesman, and elsewhere. She has been recognized by Ploughshares Emerging Writers, the City College of New York, Brooklyn Public Library, and Penguin Random House, among others. She is an alumni of the Juniper Institute for Young Writers, the Iowa Young Writers' Studio with the support of the National Society of Arts and Letters, Girls in Icy Fjords, the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship, and Girls Write Now. She is currently a Masters candidate at NYU and enjoys presenting at research conferences and getting less ice and less sugar in her winter melon milk tea. She has intermediate experience with kickboxing, yoga and aerial yoga, badminton, tennis, swimming, kayaking, bowling, and hiking. You can follow her collegiate book blog at https://silkwormreading.blogspot.com. For her modeling career she hopes to acquire agency representation and work either part-time or full-time while providing positive representation in the fashion industry to help others build self confidence and meaning in life.