Her scholarly work has been generously supported by the ACLS, the Stanford Arts Institute, the Mellon Foundation, the Stanford Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, the Stanford Center for Spatial & Textual Analysis, and the Pigott Fellowship. You can find her creative and critical writing (speculative fiction, experimental prose and poetry) in Qui Parle, taper, ArtReview, The Advocate, and the Harvard Future Humans Anthology. Her artistic work has been supported by the Anicka Yi Studios Metaspore fellowship and exhibited at et al gallery, 120710 gallery, and Bather's Library. While at Stanford, Kelsey was graduate co-chair of the Stanford Humanities Center Asian Diasporic Art

Kelsey Chen is an interdisciplinary theorist, artist, and writer. Uniting her work across mediums and disciplines: (1) An interest in speculation as a critical and artistic method, (2) An engagement with the political as the realm of effective reality,1 (3) A desire to unify the experimental & traditional, (4) An understanding of each of her practices as a ritual that self-fashions and world-makes, (5) A great tenderness for the underdogs, the freaks, the lost, the expendables, the unseen; which is to say a great affinity for the miraculous, (5) A love for false starts as their own radiant eruptions and an appreciation of the incomplete/makeshift/provisional. She thinks a lot about diaspora, global indigeneity, intuition, narrative, scientific imaginaries, and technical traditions.

1. Antonio Gramsci, The Prison Notebooks

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& Aesthetics Workshop and has founded and led a handful of graduate-led initiatives, including the Ancient Futures symposium and the Materials & Culture Research-Creation Workshop. She is currently a PhD Candidate in Modern Thought & Literature at Stanford University and artist-in-residence at Now Place, an independent bookstore and press in San Francisco Chinatown.