Lisa Chen
{{short description|Taiwanese-American writer}}
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| birth_name = Lisa Hsiao Chen
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| birth_place = Taipei, Taiwan
| nationality = Taiwanese-American
| education = {{Unbulleted list|University of California, Berkeley (BA)|University of Iowa (MFA)}}
| occupation = Writer
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| awards = Book Award for Poetry
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Lisa Hsiao Chen is a Taiwanese-born American writer, based in Brooklyn, most famous for the widely reviewed autofiction Activities of Daily Living.Briefly reviewed in the [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/23 May 23, 2022 issue] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719083642/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/23 |date=July 19, 2023 }} of The New Yorker, p.61.
Biography
Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan.{{Cite web|title=Lisa Chen|url=https://kaya.com/authors/lisa-chen/|website=Kaya Press|access-date=2020-05-21|archive-date=April 27, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240427021401/https://kaya.com/authors/lisa-chen/|url-status=live}} She earned her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and her M.F.A. from the University of Iowa.{{Cite web|title=Winner, Lisa Chen|url=https://www.ronajaffefoundation.org/2018/Winner/Lisa-Chen|website=Rona|access-date=2020-05-21|archive-date=September 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919081713/https://www.ronajaffefoundation.org/2018/Winner/Lisa-Chen|url-status=live}}
Chen's debut poetry collection, Mouth, was published through Kaya Press in 2007. In an interview with Writer's Bone, Chen said she garnered inspiration for her collection from her email spam folder, ads, news items, conversation, and Hokusai's 100 Views of Mount Fuji, among other influences.{{Cite web|title=Setting Off Sparks With Poet Lisa Chen|url=http://www.writersbone.com/interviewsarchive/2015/8/5/setting-off-sparks-with-poet-lisa-chen|website=Writer's Bone|access-date=2020-05-21|archive-date=August 17, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190817054701/http://www.writersbone.com/interviewsarchive/2015/8/5/setting-off-sparks-with-poet-lisa-chen|url-status=live}}
She has held residencies at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace Program and Blue Mountain Center, and was a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Finalist in Nonfiction Literature in 2017 and a Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Fellow from 2015 to 2016.{{Cite web|title=Lisa Chen, Workspace 2017-18|url=https://lmcc.net/artist/lisa-chen/|website=LMCC|access-date=2020-05-21}} She received a 2018 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award.{{Cite web|title=Winner, Lisa Chen|url=https://www.ronajaffefoundation.org/2018/Winner/Lisa-Chen|website=Rona|access-date=2020-05-21|archive-date=September 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919081713/https://www.ronajaffefoundation.org/2018/Winner/Lisa-Chen|url-status=live}}
In an interview with the Sonora Review, Chen said she is interested in written forms "animated by what Viktor Shklovsky called ostranenie, or 'making strange'—sometimes translated as 'estrangement' or 'defamiliarization.'"{{Cite web|title=SR 72 Contributor Interviews: Lisa Chen|url=https://sonorareview.com/2018/04/19/sr-72-contributor-interviews-lisa-chen/|date=2018-04-20|website=Sonora Review|access-date=2020-05-21|archive-date=September 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926155354/https://sonorareview.com/2018/04/19/sr-72-contributor-interviews-lisa-chen/|url-status=live}}
Awards and honors
In 2009, Mouth won the Book Award for Poetry from the Association for Asian American Studies.{{Cite web|title=Award Winners|publisher=Association for Asian American Studies|url=http://aaastudies.org/awards-winners/|website=aaastudies.org|access-date=2020-05-21|archive-date=March 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314170826/http://aaastudies.org/awards-winners/|url-status=dead}}
Activities of Daily Living was longlisted for the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction in 2023.Deborah Dundas, [https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2023/03/08/5-canadians-nominated-for-first-carol-shields-prize-for-fiction-for-women-and-non-binary-writers-worth-150000-us.html "5 Canadians nominated for first Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for women and non-binary writers, worth $150,000 (U.S.)"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230310140252/https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2023/03/08/5-canadians-nominated-for-first-carol-shields-prize-for-fiction-for-women-and-non-binary-writers-worth-150000-us.html |date=March 10, 2023 }}. Toronto Star, March 8. 2023.
References
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External links
- {{official|https://www.lisahchen.com/}}
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Category:Writers from Brooklyn
Category:21st-century Taiwanese writers
Category:21st-century Taiwanese women writers
Category:21st-century American writers
Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:American writers of Taiwanese descent
Category:Taiwanese emigrants to the United States
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