some notes & thoughts

selected fiction

RE: 1982 Wave Magazine Iss. 1, 2020

Makeshift Legends, winner of 2021 Louis Begley Fiction Prize, in The Advocate Summer 2021; and in Future Humans Anthology, Harvard University Press

selected poetry

Kelsey Chen and Spencer Chang, "8-bite" in taper 8: ❽-bite (Taper #8) (badquar.to)

“The world is a sacred object” in Verses shapeshifting poetry collection

“Peach Pits” in Verses shapeshifting poetry collection

reviews

The Fallout of Disruption: A Reflection on Pamela Lee’s "The Glen Park Library" in SO-FAR

Space Crone by Ursula Le Guin in ArtReview

critical

“hexagrammatics” in Ki by Qui Parle, issue 2.

Things Adrift: A Vital Materialist Account of Trinh Mai’s Bone of My Bone as Feminist Refuge-Making Craft. Harvard University Undergraduate Dissertation, 2022.
Claire Martin Fairman History of Art and Architecture Undergraduate Thesis Prize for Best Thesis in Modern Art; Bowdoin Prize for Best Undergraduate Essay in the English Language; Hoopes Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Work & Research

journal

Looking for Asian America: Wing Young Huie’s Work as Intimate Counter-Cartography, Columbia Undergraduate Journal of Art History, Summer 2021 Issue, Year Zero?

Editor’s Note: In the wake of anti-Asian violence across the U.S., Kelsey Chen’s “Looking for Asian America” interprets Wing Young Huie’s photography as “tender cartography,” mapping intimacies and connections across Asian America’s diverse populations. In Huie’s work, Chen finds a reimagining of Asian American identity, one which rejects the mythos of techno-orientalism in favor of an affective, anti-colonial subjectivity.

E gao: Beyond Techno-Orientalist Discourses on Chinese Internet Spoofing, Cambridge Journal of Political Affairs, Issue 2.