Joanna Chen

Joanna Chen is a writer and literary translator whose work has been published in Guernica, Narratively, Mantis and Asymptote, among numerous other journals. A former journalist, her reportage has appeared in Newsweek, The Daily Beast, Marie Claire and other publications. Her full-length literary translations include Less Like a Dove (Shearsman Books), Frayed Light (Wesleyan Poetry Series, finalist in the Jewish National Book Awards) and My Wild Garden: Notes from a Gardener’s Eden (Penguin Random House). She teaches literary translation at the Helicon School of Poetry and contributes to The Los Angeles Review of Books blog.  Find out more at www.joannachen.com