Joyce Chen is a writer and editor based in New York City. She is one of the co-founders of the literary and arts publication, The Seventh Wave, and a staff editor at Us Weekly. Her words have appeared in the New York Daily News, People magazine, the Los Angeles Daily News, Los Angeles magazine, and Hyphen magazine, as well as in Narratively, Flux Weekly, and Handwritten, among others. She holds a B.A. in journalism from the University of Southern California, and an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School.