Anelise Chen is the author of?So Many Olympic Exertions?(Kaya Press 2017), a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Her essays and reviews have appeared in numerous publications such as?The New York Times, NPR, BOMB, The New Republic, VICE,?and the?Village Voice. She has received residencies and fellowships from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Blue Mountain Center, Banff Centre, the Wurlitzer Foundation, and she will be a 2019 Literature Fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. She is currently at work on a memoir,?Clam Down?(One World Random House), based on her mollusk column for the?Paris Review.
So Many Olympic Exertions, Kaya Press
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WritingThe National Book Foundation Names Assistant Professor Anelise Chen Among ‘5 Under 35’
Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies Anelise Chen was recently selected for The National Book Foundations list of ‘5 under 35’, for her book So Many Olympic Exertions.
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Spring 2023
Assistant Professor, Writing
On leave Fall 2022