Jennifer Chen

Jennifer Chen is an award-winning freelance journalist who has written for Today, New York Times, Oprah Daily, and Real Simple. She has been interviewed on NPR’s Weekend Edition about the rise in anti-Asian hate and discussed pregnancy loss for a Glamour PSA video with actress Melissa Rauch. She was named a 2023–2024 Huntington Library Fellow to research the history of Chinatowns in California for an upcoming historical fiction novel. In addition, she was named a 2024 Lando Grant finalist by the DeGroot Foundation. She wrote a short story featured in the young adult anthology, First-Year Orientation. Her debut YA romance, Artifacts of an Ex, is out now. She is a proud mentor for WriteGirl, a creative writing organization, and a loving foster kitten mom for Best Friends Los Angeles. She lives in Los Angeles with her TV writer husband, twins, two pugs, and a cat named Gremlin.