Ken Chen

Ken Chen is a professor at Barnard College and is currently working on his next book Death Star, which follows his journey to the underworld to rescue his father and his encounters there with those destroyed by colonialism. His poetry collection, Juvenilia, was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets by Louise Glück. He previously served as the Executive Director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and co-founded CultureStrike, a national arts organization dedicated to migrant justice.