Anelise Chen

Anelise Chen
Anelise Chen (2017)
Born	Taiwan
Occupation	Author
Education	University of California, Berkeley (BA) New York University (MFA)
Notable works	So Many Olympic Exertions (2017)

Anelise Chen is a Taiwanese-born American writer of fiction and nonfiction. She was named "5 under 35" by the National Book Foundation in 2019. ^[1]

Her first novel, So Many Olympic Exertions, was published in 2017 by Kaya Press and was named one of the best books of the year by Brooklyn Rail. ^[2]

Life

She holds degrees from UC Berkeley (B.A. English) and New York University (MFA Fiction). She teaches writing at Columbia University. ^[3]

Her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times , National Public Radio, BOMB Magazine , The New Republic , Vice, and The Village Voice . She writes a column on mollusks for Paris Review . ^[4]

She lives in New York City.

Works

• Chen, Anelise (2017). So Many Olympic Exertions. ISBN   978-1-885030-35-1. ^{[5] [6]}
• Chen, Anelise (2025-06-03). Clam Down. New York: Random House. ISBN   978-1-9848-0184-5. ^{[7] [8] [9] [10]}

References

1. "Anelise Chen". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
2. "The Rail's Best Books of 2017". The Brooklyn Rail. 13 December 2017. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
3. "Professor Anelise Chen's New Book 'Clam Down' Out in June | School of the Arts". arts.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2025-06-22.
4. "Anelise Chen, Author at The Paris Review". The Paris Review. Retrieved 23 June 2018.
5. "Anelise Chen's So Many Olympic Exertions | The Brooklyn Rail". brooklynrail.org. 2024-08-19. Retrieved 2025-06-22.
6. "Autofiction and the Asian Diaspora: A Q-and-A with Anelise Chen". Los Angeles Review of Books. 2018-04-03. Retrieved 2025-06-22.
7. Leu, Chelsea (2025-05-31). "A Memoir of Divorce and Xenophobia, Narrated by a Clam". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2025-06-22.
8. "Clam Down: A Metamorphosis by Anelise Chen". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2025-06-22.
9. Lit, Intern Electric (2025-06-05). "This Divorce Memoir Is Told from the Perspective of a Clam". Electric Literature. Retrieved 2025-06-22.
10. "BOMB Magazine | Anelise Chen by Karen Gu". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved 2025-06-22.