Andy Chen was born and raised in New Jersey. 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, and his poems appear in Ploughshares, New England Review, The Offing, and elsewhere. He teaches at John Burroughs School in St. Louis. To read more, visit heyandychen.com.