Ken Chen
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Life
Chen was born to immigrants from Taiwan and grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He graduated from the University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
, where he obtained a BA in English Literature (with a minor in Creative Writing) and Yale Law School
Yale Law School
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, where he earned a JD.
He was an editor of Arts & Letters Daily while at Berkeley and worked at Hughes Hubbard & Reed
Hughes Hubbard & Reed
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LLP after law school. He is currently director of the Asian American Writers' Workshop
Asian American Writers' Workshop
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.
His writing has been published the Art Asia Pacific, Boston Review of Books, Manoa, Field, Pleiades, and Barrow Street, Bridge, Radical Society, 5 Fingers Review, and Palimpsest.
He lives in Brooklyn, New York.