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Wendy Chen is the author of the novel Their Divine Fires (Algonquin) and the poetry collection Unearthings (Tavern Books). Her poetry translations of Song-dynasty woman writer Li Qingzhao are published in a collection titled The Magpie at Night from Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Penguin UK. She is the associate editor-in-chief of Tupelo Quarterly, prose editor of Tupelo Press, and editor of Witness. Her poetry, translations, and prose have appeared in Freeman’s, A Public Space, Lit Hub and elsewhere. She earned her MFA in poetry from Syracuse University and her PhD in English from the University of Denver. Currently, she is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.