Anelise Chen

Instructor

Anelise Chen is the author of the novel So Many Olympic Exertions, a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. She is a 5 Under 35 Honoree from the National Book Foundation. Her second book, Clam Down, published June 2025, is a hybrid memoir about the pleasures and perils of a closed-up life. Chen is currently an associate professor of creative writing at Columbia University. She lives in New Haven, Connecticut, with her family.