Christine H. Chen was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Madagascar before settling in Boston where she worked as a research chemist. Her fiction has appeared in CRAFT Literary, Hobart, SmokeLong Quarterly, Atticus Review, and other journals and anthologies. Her work was selected for Wigleaf Top 50 2023. Her story “Maid in America” won a Fractured Lit. Anthology III prize, 2023. She is a recipient of the 2022 Mass Cultural Council Artist Fellowship, and the co-translator from French of the novel My Lemon Tree (Spuyten Duyvil, 2023). Read more at www.christinehchen.com