Mimosa Pudica

Michelle Chen is an eighteen-year-old poet, writer, and artist who takes inspiration for her writing from her home, New York City, as well as from her travels. She was born in Singapore and spent her early years in China before immigrating to the United States at the age of four. Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Bat City Review, The Sharkpack Poetry Review, Rattle, Across the Margin and elsewhere. Her writing has been recognized by the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, YoungArts, Foyle Young Poets, Ploughshares Emerging Writers, the Lancaster Writing Award for Literary Criticism, and the City College of New York, among others. She has performed her work at venues including Lincoln Center, Sotheby's, the National Arts Club, and the NYC Poetry Festival, and has attended writing workshops at Amherst and the Iowa Young Writers' Studio with the support of the National Society of Arts and Letters.