Joyce Chen is a writer, editor, and community builder who draws inspiration from many coastal cities. She was the most recent Hugo House writer-in-residence, and was a 2019-2020 Hugo House Fellow. Her work has been published in Rolling Stone, Poets & Writers, Lit Hub, Narratively, and Slant’d, among others, and she contributes book reviews to Orion and Hyphen magazines. She has received support through Hugo House, VONA, Tin House, Artist Trust, Vermont Studio Center, Centrum, and Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and she is the executive director of The Seventh Wave, an arts and literary nonprofit that champions art in the space of social issues.
Enjoy this excerpt of Joyce’s beautiful essay “Mother, Time.” and go read the rest at @slantdcreative! And be sure to check out Joyce’s amazing work with @seventhwavemag as well—as the government slashes funding for arts and literature, it’s more important than ever to support the lit mags, publishers, and arts spaces that make Seattle’s literary community so vibrant and alive 🌱
Come to Other People’s Poems at @openpoetrybooks on May 24th to hear Joyce read some of her favorite poems alongside Amy Hirayama and Diana Xin! 💫
Other People’s Poems is an open mic & reading series at Open Books: A Poem Emporium | Next event May 24, 2025